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John. A. Allan
 LOOK TWICE AT THE RIVER

Chapter one – Page 5 - The Implications Of Truth

Chapter two – Page 13 - The Nature Of All Things

Chapter three – page 16 - The Underpinning Of Belief

Chapter four – page 22 - Globalisation and its impact on values

Chapter five – page 33 - War! What is it good for?

Chapter six – page 44 - Pigeon Holing For A Reason

Chapter seven – page 48 – Reality And Truth. Is There A Difference?

Chapter eight – page 58 – Manifestation And The Law Of Resonance

Chapter nine – page 71 – The Creation Of Change & Subconscious
memory
Chapter Ten – page 77 – The Map, The Territory & Everything Else
Reference - page 83

© JOHN A ALLAN 2012

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Who looks outside, dreams
Who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Gustav Jung

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 Chapter One

The Implications Of Truth

Any community or society is under-pinned by truth. That same

foundation includes many other aspects, but truth is the fulcrum upon
which we mark our place with our fellow beings. Basic truth and
honesty is the flux with which we meld the pieces of our society. Even
disreputable organisations must have sincerity and truthfulness for
them to experience cohesiveness. They must be truthful with each
other as to their cause or aims even though such truth may conflict with
the broader community. Organisations are sometimes at odds with
standards and truthfulness, set by the rest of society. Society may not
like what these organisations do, or how they operate, but if the
members of that group or community are not sincere with each other,
then the resultant fragmentation of that association will certainly
encourage their entropic end.
Truth draws truth and can never contradict it. People are encouraged
by such displays despite themselves. Sincerity becomes a hypnotic
attraction because sincerity is divined as truth, however it is possible to
be sincerely wrong. Sincerity alone, does not garner truthfulness, but it
is a lynchpin of a person’s truth and so one without the other is simply a
statement of fact. Sincerity, truthfulness and courage knit together and
create greatness. The orthodoxies of today may not be here tomorrow
and the results of poor governance continue for a very long time, but
truth and courage live forever. We acknowledge courage in our fables
and legends and pass those stories down through out our history.
Courage and truth within our societies make our legends come alive for
our progeny and allows them to conceive their own convictions that in
turn, create that pioneering spirit for future generations to model.
The three underpinnings of a good life, truth, sincerity and courage,
provide an ability to follow one’s convictions, despite the ignorance of
the past and allows us to become pioneers in those fields that create our
destiny. As we overcome old habits, created through worn out thought
patterns that enmeshed us to the slavery of fear and conformity, our
inner values cause us to strive to be ever greater, despite the mockery
and scorn from those who forgo the cloak of courage to stand by their
own truth and who lack the sincerity of any conviction. To stand by our
own convictions causes us to make sacrifices without the surety of the
knowledge that our message will conquer the status quo. But when we
are sincere and have the courage to acclaim, not only when we are right,
but the honesty to admit when we are wrong and when we stand by our
truth, then we begin the journey to destiny, unashamed of our
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that we can feel the greatness our convictions have brought to the light
of day.
When we aspire to, and live by these three aspects of life, truth,
sincerity and courage, we are lead to an understanding beyond the
physical. These three gifts are indeed the corner stones upon which
character is built, whether such character is of the individual an
organisation or a community, however within the individual, such
mental distinction leads to the strengthening of our spiritual life, the
end objective of which is joy through humility. The opposite of humility
is pride and is the most prolific of vices throughout humankind. There
is, of course, a middle road to all things. Neither mediocre nor extreme,
for within humility there can be excess, just as there is excess to one
being proud.
It is paramount that we acknowledge our strengths and gifts through
which we are able to enrich society. In order to accomplish greatness, it
is necessary to recognise our greatness. We need to acknowledge these
facts with confidence rather than arrogant pride. An excess of humility
can easily lead to the establishment of low self worth and low self-
esteem however, unrealistic optimism, caused through a lack of
humility, can just as easily lead to unrealistic optimism about the future
and because of such unfounded optimism, our vulnerability is inevitably
on display. Ask any bride, if she will be one of the fifty percent in the
divorce court and the optimistic reply will undoubtedly demonstrate my
point.
Pride in oneself is necessary to the competency of self-esteem and self
worth. Without the correct ratio of pride, one’s view of their real worth
will be greatly diminished and so self-esteem is lost. Excess pride is the
fore-runner of arrogance and all resultant actions are blinded by the
excess resulting in lost relationships, both personal and business,
creating a maelstrom of emotions. People encountering turmoil find it
difficult to see any fault lying within their own behaviour and this leads
to blame and victimhood, which are the beginnings of loneliness and lost
love. A danger here comes with the loss of relationships, where some
people are inclined to view such loss as a punishment rather than the
effect of a series of complications all brought about through behaviour
constructed through thought patterns, however the subconscious belief
remains and gnaws at self confidence. Damage to our pride is seen (and
felt) as the deepest hurt. We describe an attack on our pride in similar
terms as “my pride was wounded” for such emotion is at the core of our
being.
The reflexive action of mind is the protection of our self made pride.
Pride is the instinctive reaction to the preservation of the mind. Every
action we take has within its composition an aspect of what has been
called the first great sin. When we discover the ability to master our
instinctive flight to pride we begin to conquer those following aspects of
behaviour that this emotion influences from impatience to pessimism.
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eats at our compassion and for this reason alone, the principle of the
great sin, pulls us away from the unity consciousness, one with all, to
which we might otherwise aspire.
Our opinions and feelings form the epicentre of our reality and without
achieving a vision of possibility beyond self we remain a prisoner of past
experience. Our concentration on the narrow inclinations of our own
feelings, wishes and desires to the point of selfishness, preclude the
probability of reasonable interaction with our fellow travellers. When
we are able to overcome such egocentric short-comings and reach out to
others, we begin the process of true satisfaction, for it is through the act
of giving that we actually receive from the sea of possibility that
abounds in the universal consciousness.
Through the act of sharing, we actually follow our true nature. The
acknowledgement of gifting our resourcefulness to others is an
acknowledgment of the understanding of our true unity with each other
and with all things. The oneness of the material world is perhaps more
obvious than our unity with cosmic consciousness, never the less,
through the acceptance of non duality, we are able to realise our true
potential, for if we are one with all, then all is possible and the
acceptance of this reality in its entirety, allows us to find true peace in
what might otherwise be a torrid existence.
The psychological voyage that we face, from guilt to anxiousness in a
never ending and repeating pattern, is age old. Feelings of guilt are
burdensome for us from our earliest memory. Guilt is the gift of many
religions and the association of such thought is provided by the idea of
sin and our guilt before God. We are educated from earliest days to
understand that, no matter how we try, sin always seems to find its way
to our soul and therefore our very existence is somehow moored here.
Religion also creates anxiousness through the lottery of heaven or hell
at this life’s end. Such reasoning places us squarely in the future where
it is possible to expound any number of theories in a field of infinite
possibilities. The future is ‘out there’ somewhere, giving rise to any
possibility that we wish to construct. With just a modicum of fear, we
are able to live with anxiousness for as long as we wish to remain in that
future psychological place. By allowing our mind to go from past to
future, we are in fact allowing ourselves a constructed identity with the
past. Mindful of the guilt of the past, we seek a glimmer of salvation
from the future. The truth of all such thought is that it is our own
construct and nothing more.
The seeds of our thoughts carry on the breeze of consciousness that
pervades all and will surely alight at the place of intention, sooner
rather than later. Everyday we live at the mercy of our thoughts and
wonder why life is, as it is. Those fluctuations of energy in our brain
that give rise to the molecule of thought quickly turns to action within
the millisecond of their initial existence. No matter what, our body
reacts with appropriate chemicals that soothe our soul or stir us to
further physical action. There can be no doubt, all thought leads to an

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action-oriented outcome that will either serve our growth or hinder our
spiritual attainment. Left unguarded our thoughts have the ability to
create chaos in our life, without a hint of their input. Most people are
completely unaware of the role that thought and thought patterns play
in the outcome of life. The trials of today, are the birthright of
yesterday’s thoughts, just as our joy is completely determined by those
patterns we employ to create the feelings of love, peace, joy and
happiness.
Awareness of our thoughts and the use of thought patterns to control
our self-talk, enable us to choose those outcomes that serve us. The use
of single words, phrases and metaphors are influenced by and are the
direct result of thought and habitual thought patterns. When we say
things like “I am crushed by her refusal” we actually feel crushed
around the heart and such feelings have a direct influence on our
health. “I have a heavy heart” quite literally will give rise to a feeling of
weight within the chest and cause the heart to labour in its function. On
the other hand “I could jump for joy” has the opposite effect on our
physiology. “My heart leaped for joy” will send those endorphins of love
such as dopermine and serotonin surging through our body
emphasising those feelings and creating a lightness of spirit. Thoughts
create our reality.
We are the creators of thought and so we are the creators of our reality.
What we think, believe and concentrate on, becomes our physical world.
In the matrix of life, we have, at our disposal, an infinite realm of
possibilities. These possibilities are reliant upon those choices we make
at every moment. It’s a little like steering a motor car, every
adjustment of the steering wheel takes us in a new direction and we
follow that direction for as long as we point the wheel that way. Of
course, other forces come into play, such as speed and road conditions
and if we could take that analogy, it is possible to look at life in a similar
way. Any choice that we make alters the course of our life, in the
moment of that decision. We could choose, for example, to buy an item
of clothing, however if the store has sold out, then the impact of
conditions, changes the outcome of our decision, in that moment. We
could of course, choose to go to another store and buy our clothing
there. That is another decision and has attached to it, another set of
circumstances, but with each decision, our life changes.
The decisions that we make arise from our thoughts and our thoughts
arise from the realm of infinite possibilities. We could choose to have
any thought at any moment. Choice is infinite, however, while we have
infinite possibilities to choose anything, we are influenced by outside
factors, including current experience (we might be listening to the radio
that advertises a clothing sale for example), our beliefs (we might
believe that too many people go to sales and the crush of the crowds
would be unbearable, so we choose to stay at home) we could decide to
stay at home because it is raining (circumstance) or we have no money
to spare on clothing this week. Every decision is impacted by outside
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decision; our life alters its course according to the matrix of realities,
which we allow to influence our life. We live life according to this matrix
of decisions and influence, with each decision taking us ever closer to
our final physical destination in this reality.
We organise our beliefs in a number of ways and create those beliefs
through learning and recognition of symbols or representations that are
stored in conscious and subconscious memory.
Our belief about a particular represented fact, then, is the stored
representation of that fact and this belief we now hold alters or impacts
on our future behaviour in relation to what we have learned. However,
not all behaviours come via an organism’s belief system. Numerous
behaviours could be said to be instinctual. A magnetosome bacteria for
example, always seeks alignment with the earth’s magnetic field and so
in the northern hemisphere are always guided north and so to deeper
waters, away from those shallow oxygen rich waters that would be
harmful to them. Instinctual behaviours for you and I may be
associated with the flight, fight or freeze instinct held around danger
and fear. This is a part of the complex structure of our representational
system gained through associative learning. Even though flight, fight
and freeze are instinctual, rather than learned, the associated triggers
are learned. For example, I may express one or all of these reactions to
the sight of a snake coiled on my path, but to a herpetologist, the sight of
a snake would fill them with appreciation for the reptile and its beauty.
We structure our belief system through experience with memory
layered onto memory and stored for subconscious retrieval when
required, triggered again, by associated memory. Our beliefs are linked
to our inner feelings, thoughts, desires and emotions. For this reason,
people with the same beliefs, may have different behaviours. Thought
arises from an infinite field of possibility and so our representation of
beliefs have the possibility of being retrieved to fit any number of
situations, but the likelihood of such retrieval is also infinite in a field of
probability. Our beliefs then, must be stored internally, in a systematic
structure of thought, language and symbols. Individually our thought
processes echo such structure. For example, a small child who has
never encountered a snake is unlikely to experience thoughts of danger,
when a snake is encountered, the desperate and alarming warnings
from a parent become a linguistic memory and the coiled image of the
snake may imprint as a symbol of danger from that time. It is likely
that any representation of a snake, word, symbol or sight, will be
believed to represent danger for that child in the future. That a snake is
dangerous becomes a belief.
Braddon-Mitchell and Jackson (10), suggest that we represent our
thoughts as a map, rather than through linguistic representation. A
map-like representational system would allow for one change in belief to
result in a cascade of changes to linked beliefs. For example, as I learn
that not all snakes are dangerous, I may represent only those with
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think in colour rather than a linguistic representation of reptiles or I
might learn that poisonous snakes have small heads, so my belief then
is around the symbols of small-headed snakes as being dangerous.
Through my learning, my beliefs change and as represented by my map,
a series of beliefs alter simultaneously, without further conscious input.
My map in these representations may be pictorial or linguistic and may
include colour or symbols. Change one representation and many will
alter.
People’s behaviours do not necessarily indicate their beliefs. While
behaviours are impacted by our representations of what we believe as
our reality, such behaviours are also impacted by past experience and
the interpretations we construct. A person’s mental state also impacts
on outward behaviour. There is a school of philosophy that interprets
people’s behavioural disposition as an indication of their belief, but does
not appear to take into account the differences in people’s inner
representations through desire and emotions, which may be impacted
by environment. For example, I may have similar beliefs to you, but
while at a meeting of snake charmers and herpetologists, I may be
reluctant to talk about my fear of snakes and so my outward behaviour
gives nothing away about my beliefs that snakes are dangerous.
Observable behaviour is not a good indicator of inner beliefs and while
we may be able to predict the likelihood of someone’s behaviour if we
know their beliefs, such behaviour may not be evident in every
circumstance. We establish belief through our perceptions about a
particular circumstance. For example we may have a belief that we will
be bitten should we get too close to that snake.
Experience is the foregoer to the creation of belief. The belief so
obtained, is taken from the result of having the experience, however
there is a difference between acceptance and belief. We can choose to
accept the validity of a particular event or experience. For example, we
can listen to a story and choose to believe its authenticity or not. We
then have the choice of believing and through that choice create a belief,
which will then affect our behaviour at some point in the future. Of
course we have already created a sub-belief around the story’s
authenticity, which also impacts our behaviour (we choose to believe or
disbelieve) but in that way, our choice is our acceptance and our belief is
that it is true or untrue to us. We may have heard the story and
accepted it without choosing consciously to do so and so our belief
circumvents conscious acceptance. In Australia today, many people
accept the story that refugees as asylum seekers should be known as
“boat people” and that “boat people” are “queue jumpers” and so not
welcome. The public forms the belief around the labels applied rather
than specific stories of escape from torture and genocide. Once such
beliefs are implanted and reinforced through fear (there may be
terrorists among them) the beliefs are difficult to ever change, because
those with the formed belief that this is dangerous to accept “boat
people,” will have to defend their ego. Ego defence reinforces the belief
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There is an interesting aside to the above discussion in that one of the
subliminal messages, occasionally reinforced, is that there “may be”
terrorists among the asylum seeking refugees. The indefinite
suggestion of “may be” has the propensity to instil even more fear, as it
may or may not be factual. If any asylum seeker is then granted refugee
status, they “may be” the inferred terrorist. The phrase plays to the
fear of the unknown and reinforces it anyway. The Statistical Manual
Of Mental Disorders, the Psychiatrist’s standard reference,
characterises delusion as beliefs and some authorities attempt to delude
us into believing that specific people from foreign countries, may not
assimilate and that there is danger in their acceptance into society.
Our linguistic representation of belief alters discretely with age and
learning. Most people would agree that a table is solid, however with an
understanding of quantum physics and learning that gluons, the very
centre of protons are actually mass-less, the quantum physicist would
say that the table is not solid at all, but is in fact a vibrating group of
atoms as is the rest of the cosmos. To that end, everyone’s belief
depends to a large degree on one’s related beliefs and as everyone’s
experiences are different, even though we understand the same things,
our beliefs, like our thoughts, can never be exactly the same.
Everything is filtered through our perception of reality, discretely
coloured by our sensory filters. In this way, our beliefs are
manufactured by what we sense as reality rather than, necessarily,
what is actually real to someone else.
It is possible to study the life long effects of unseen forces, made
physical upon our being and through those effects, upon our soul, which
is our centre of consciousness. It is through our relationship to life and
each other that we influence change and such relationships are
manufactured with infinite care, or without thought whatsoever
according to our awareness of our thought processes. As truth is
intricately interwoven with truth, so love attracts love and misery cries
out for misery. Those with whom we associate, influence us in thought,
word and deed. Greatness is nothing without action. Thoughts always
manifest in conduct, this is the way in which the innate intelligence of
The Law Of Spirit, which is a part of the universal power of the cosmos,
ensures conversion to the physical. Sometimes referred to as The Law
of Thought, spirit can never be evaded it is self -acting.
Plato asked, “…why should we not calmly and patiently review our own
thoughts, and thoroughly examine and see what these appearances in
us really are?” He was making a case here for introspection.
Introspection is the examination of perspective, which is the lens
through which we view our reality and through introspection we finally
come to realisation and the key to our soul’s history. When we at last
understand our interpretation of reality, we understand the
interpretation of our fellow beings, which allows us to give, rather than
take. Giving of our-selves and sharing of our understanding and our
inherent gifts, is an act of love, which is the highest form of vibration in
a vibrational universe, whereas taking is an act of the animal self. To

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receive is different to taking. To receive graciously is also an act of love
and respect for the giver, by allowing that person to express themselves
through their gift. When we receive graciously, we acknowledge the
value of the other person and when we deny the gift, we refuse the
universal Law of Attraction. Attracting into our life is after all, what
that law is about.
When we pray, we usually ask our God, or the Universe to provide
something; are we then to deny it when it comes into our life by some
form that we did not expect? When we attract, we ask for what we
want, and allow the Universe to fill in the detail, for in a universe that is
of the same stuff, we are a part of that which we seek. Why then, would
we deny its gift? All gifts come from the divine flow. In the Christian
bible Luke teaches “give and it will be given to you,” however if we give
only to receive, then all we are doing is trading one thing for another.
When we receive with love, in order to allow the other person to give
with love, we are fulfilling the Principle of Causality where there is a
determining factor in the production of experience. Where love is met
with love, the outcome can only be love. When love is met with anything
less, then the ensuing result will have a much lower vibrational value.

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 Chapter Two

The Nature Of All Things

The true nature of all energy is light, which is found vibrating
throughout creation. Within the spirit of universal energy, which is
light, is the essence of all beings. We are intrinsically woven into the
fabric of the cosmos, which exists as a matrix of possibilities. We are a
manifestation of spirit that flows through all things within the universe
and so that hologram of spirit is within all things. We each offer a
different description of spirit. Some use the descriptive ‘God’, others,
‘Essence’ and others may use ‘Universe’. While we may use different
words to describe that which is indescribable, most of us could agree
that we are referring to the creating power that is in everything. I will
use the adjective spirit to describe what I wish to convey. All of our
thoughts, actions and desires and everything that we create, permeates
this fabric that weaves creation. Just as every drop of water creates the
mightiest of rivers, so we as individuals give form to the cosmology of all
that is. When we know ourselves as the river and also as the quantum
packet (like those that create the water molecule) we understand that
we are a key element to the whole and duality at any level is an illusion.
There is a source that connects all things.
And so it is that we cannot see the same river twice as in every
millisecond, it changes. We think that we see a river, but in fact we see
The collection of molecules we see at once, we call a river. Change is
constant. Hydrogen and oxygen atoms cluster in their specific
constructs and the result is water. We can never see the same group of
molecules or the same ‘pieces’ of water twice. They are in a constant
state of change and in order to cope with that change our brain
interprets the dance before us, as one thing – flowing water and we call
that perception a river. When we look at our body, it is the same effect.
Our body changes by the second and in order for our brain to make
conscious sense of the changes, we interpret the result as our body. It is
the same with everything – with all things. Nothings is the same from
instant to instant, there is constant change and constant interpretation.
When we look twice at the river, we can now understand that nothing is
as it appears at first glance. Reality is our perception of what we
experience.
Everything in the cosmos is made of atoms. From the trees in the field
to the houses in the cities, people, animals, places and things, all are
made of atoms, constructed from the elementary particles of matter.
But there is another world that exists to make up these atoms and that
stuff is very, very small. It is sub-atomic – even smaller than atoms and
we know this stuff as quantum material and it works in really weird
ways. Quantum material appears to defy the laws of physics as we
know them and at the smallest size of these impossibly small sizes,
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experienced their own metamorphosis into what you know as your body
have somehow created that arrangement by way of an incredible
number of happy coincidences, all of which happen only once in the
entire history of the cosmos and the magic of that coincidence is that
you are the result. No matter that the cells these atoms comprise, only
remain in your body for a relatively fleeting instant, providing you with
ever renewing stomach lining, skin and every other body part
imaginable, but they then disassemble from your existence to
reassemble somewhere else and all the while, you maintain your
unconscious awareness of the process, while keeping your conscious
awareness of anything and everything else within your reality.
The types of atoms that comprise you also make all other things and
other beings within the universe. Without them, there would be nothing
at all. These few trillion atoms come together in such a way to create a
small string of acids that carry a code written on a base of a five-carbon
sugar and some phosphate that reaches back into your archetypal
history and makes you who you uniquely are. The atoms that make you
are amazingly immaterial and should you be able to reduce yourself to
their size, you would find their construction comprised of protons,
neutrons and electrons. So how can we gain an understanding of the
size of these constructs of atoms?
Imagine that we were able to make the atom, the size of a football field;
the nucleus would be about as large as a small marble. The electrons of
our marble circulate at the edge of our football stadium with only
protons and neutrons in the atom’s core. Of course, the core of our atom
is not solid either, however it is extremely dense. To understand just
how insubstantial and dense this core is, it might be helpful to ponder
this scenario. Imagine again, creating a small thirty centimetre square
box, and suppose that every person in the world owned a car and that
you were able to reduce those cars in size so that they could fit into your
box, then you would have something representing the density of one
atom’s nucleus. An atom is mostly space, even at its core and even
more space before we even get to the electron that moves at crazy
speeds around the centre.
Protons in our atom’s core, are infinitely tiny, in fact about five hundred
billion protons could fit here “.” Protons are very small and in the
quantum world of their existence, they are made up of the tiniest of
measured matter, known as quarks. About one percent of a proton’s
mass is made of quarks; the remaining ninety-nine percent is energy.
So when we dive to the very depths of this known universal matter, we
find that it is mostly, not matter at all. All of what makes you and me
and the rest of the cosmos, is space and energy; for when we actually go
even deeper we find that quarks, the very elementary units of quantum
measurements for matter, are mostly charge and mass. The mass of a
quark comes from particles known as gluons. Gluons are mass-less
energy. This means that the entire atom is energy. We are energy. The
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There is power that permeates the universe. It is the life force of all
things and it not only links body and mind but the confluence of body
and mind with everything else. It is the force that provides universal
intelligence. A seed has within it, the promise of future growth, just as
the tree that springs from it has the innate intelligence to know when to
flower, when to shed its leaves and when to grow. All things have
intelligence locked within, even so called inanimate objects which are
constructed of atoms and molecules that cluster together in strict
regulation in order to make the appearance of the materials we
recognise. Every atom has its own intelligence and the life force within
causes the electrons to circulate and protons to vibrate according to the
kinetic energy that accounts for their mass. The universe vibrates with
energy and information, known for centuries and recognised in the
ancient teachings as Qi in the Chinese culture, as Prana in Sanskrit and
Tibetan beliefs and Shakti is also a Sanskrit word referring to the force
within. The life force of the human experience is sometimes referred to
as Kundalini, again from the Sanskrit, quite literally meaning the
“coiled” and dormant force within human beings. In Christian belief,
this force is recognised as The Holy Ghost.
Just as the seed holds future’s promise, so the soul holds the promise of
ideas that we, as individuals, are able to develop through the knowledge
written upon our soul prior to this existence, in order to fulfil our life’s
journey. Our soul existed before this incarnation and has, etched into it
if you like, knowledge of everything. Just as our thoughts arise from all
possibility, so the soul has infinite possibility from the universal
consciousness. While “good” and “bad” arise from judgemental beliefs,
they are necessary, perhaps, in order for us to understand the
opposites, mentally. Everything has to have an opposite, up and down,
good and bad, hot and cold, so that our brain can understand what it is
that we are experiencing. The one, who is born deaf, has no idea of raw
sound and the person who is born blind, has no idea of darkness,
because they have never experienced light. We need the opposite in
order to understand. And so I say here, that our soul has impressed
upon it, both the “good” and the “bad” in the form of knowledge from its
universal experiences prior to this incarnation. We then, have the free
will to choose how we will use that information that provides us the
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 Chapter Three

The Underpinning Of Belief

So what brings us to knowledge? At first thought, one might say that
knowledge is an assembly of factual information gained through
education, providing descriptions of experience. Plato described
knowledge as “justified true belief”, but what then is belief and how do
we come to have belief? Generally, one would have to agree that we
gain belief through experience where we have perception and reasoning
gained through cognitive processes. In other words, we organise our
belief system through the experiences of life. Most people have a set of
beliefs instilled from childhood, where we learned almost entirely from
experience. We watched our parents, peers and siblings and we copied
(or tried to copy) and we learned through touch and taste and sound.
We learned through the use of all our sensory experience, but we
learned through one sensory experience more than the others. This
became our dominant sense and was probably a sense handed to us
through genetic inheritance. Overlaying our sensory experience, are a
number of other factors including our ethnic and social inheritances.
Through our senses, if we believe an experience to be true, we compare
it, using our lens of reality and we justify that experience to suit our
belief system. At this stage we have almost completed the cycle that
allows us to say that we have knowledge regarding a particular
experience. The three requirements for knowledge are truth with
sincerity, justification and belief. The knowledge we gain becomes our
truth and as such, has been weighed against our belief system, which
has comprised all of our available sensory experience. Such knowledge
does not allow us the judgement of right or wrong. This choice is a
comparison made by us through the use of our values which we gain
from information given to us by parents or dominant and significant
others (usually parents, teachers and dominant peers). Every
experience contributes to our knowledge base and has layers of other
experiences that influence and impact our decision to either accept or
ignore the knowledge gained. Every second of every day, pieces of
information flood our senses. We comprehend this information as best
we can, in order to manufacture our pool of knowledge.
We receive stimulation through all of our available senses and were we
able to break down that information into ‘bits’ or quantifiable pieces, we
would see that we receive around two million ‘pieces’ every second. We
experience these pieces through sight, sound, touch, taste and smell.
These information “packages” are recorded in a hierarchal sequence
with our dominant sense recording the most information available.
Researchers at the Pennsylvania School of Medicine, suggest that the
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million bits every second..(1). Quite obviously, under ordinary
circumstances, we could never make sense of such quantities. We would
quickly be overwhelmed and our brain would simply shut down and so it
does an amazing thing, it deletes the information it deems unnecessary.
The physical way in which we do this is by placing our attention on
certain aspects of our experience and overlooking those stimuli we
determine to be unimportant. A surprising aspect is that the deleted
stimuli are not necessarily deleted completely, but merely from our
conscious brain. Our subconscious memory still records and it records
through all available senses and stores that information throughout the
body. Cellular memory holds information from past experience in
readiness to comply with conscious retrieval at a later date.
The encoding of memory at the cellular level is a focal point for
conditions such as post-traumatic stress, but all experience is encoded
here and its depth of access for retrieval is dependant upon the
acknowledgement of the individual to the event in question. To put it
another way, an event may be shocking and its memory may be
suppressed in order for the individual to cope with life. Such memories
may then cause behavioural problems if left unattended with one such
result being diagnosed as post-traumatic stress. Other memories may
carry less of an impact and so may be dealt with through conversation
and therapy or through acknowledgement. Meditation and guided
imagery often help with such cases including reframing the event so
that we gain another, less intimidating perspective. There are a number
of therapeutic techniques that allow the individual to effectively cope
with perceived and actual memories.
Our cells store the memory of feelings. Feelings associated with emotion
are represented in specific areas of the body. Heartache at the death of
a loved one is exactly that, an ache in the heart. Anger may be stored in
the liver, continued annoyance in the kidneys, fear in the stomach.
When memory is suppressed, the flow of our life energy becomes
restricted and ‘stuck’ and the areas of the body so effected display signs
of illness. In fact, this ‘stuck-ness’ is the physical sign of lower
vibrational values. The person with the heartache may well experience
heart disease or even a heart attack. The fear held in the stomach
restricts the flow of blood to that area and such restriction could lead to
cancers or ulcers. Suppressed cellular memory restricts joy-filled
living.
Feelings associated with trauma and emotion lodge in affected places of
the body. A child, traumatised by severe burns to a limb, may indeed
feel pain in that limb whenever they come unexpectedly near fire at
anytime in the future. They may carry this trauma into adulthood
where it exists as a fear. The response here comes from a matter of
perception linked to a forgotten emotion and memory lodged within the
cellular subconscious in the affected limb.
The cells of our immune system remember pathogens and viruses. They
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think never the less and do so with increasingly complex ways,
depending on the threat to their host. Thinking immune systems are
found in all plants and animals and during infection, recognise the
pathogen and adapt an appropriate response. The cells in your lungs
remember the influenza bacterium and respond immediately by
creating the desire to sneeze or to cough the pathogen from the body.
The cells of the immune system recognise when other cells loose the
ability to replicate normally and become transformed into cancerous
cells. When certain cells replicate, their offspring may become long-
lived memory cells, which have the ability to remember specific
pathogens and it becomes their “job” to mount a response when such
pathogens are detected in the future.
Knowledge combined with perception creates the substrate that we use
to construct our reality. Perception from an early age provides us with
those experiential understandings from which we will draw our beliefs
and values. We will use these belief patterns (not necessarily the
specific beliefs) and the core values (which we will probably always use)
in every evaluation of every experience for the remainder of our life.
Perception is filtered by our sensory experience and so is in turn,
shaped by our understanding garnered through learning and memory
and to a certain extent, what we expect of the experience in question.
For example, quite often, within our society, older people have reducing
contact with the outside world. Friends less inhabit their world, for
reasons of mobility and perhaps mortality and so many older people live
in isolation and are inclined to depend upon the media for company.
They listen to the radio or watch television in increasing amounts.
Exposure to the media causes these people to become more aware of
reports of violence and crime. They begin to expect crime as a normal
part of daily life and they then become afraid. The bars go on the
windows and double locks go on the doors. They have specific
expectations around crime and so when the door-bell goes in the middle
of the day, even though their belief system tells them that the visitor
may be a friend and their core values tell them to be polite, their
expectations are that the visitor could indeed be a threat and so the
door remains latched or they call through the closed door asking who it
is.
Perception occurs through sensory awareness, but is also based upon
our concepts and knowledge gained through memory. Perception may
be influenced by emotion governed by our subconscious memory of past
events. I may like my red sports car because, at a subconscious level, I
remember a red sports car from times past that instilled in me a desire
to have a similar vehicle of my own. Perception is affected by contrast
also; luke-warm water feels hot when I place my cold foot in the bath
water. My grand-daughter’s small building block appears further away
when that small block is immediately next to a very large block. We are
affected by people’s names and looks, by the way they dress and speak,
and our perception is altered as to their character before we even have
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much at the door of our reality. Our perception of the world, tells us
that we are physical beings, surviving in a physical world, where in fact,
all matter is actually made of vibrating, non-stuff. What we perceive is
more likely to become our truth, rather than what we actually
experience.
The values that we hold as adults are given to us from childhood,
through influence by our parents, family, teachers, siblings and peers.
Our core values remain with us throughout life and rarely change
through deletion. We may add a value but rarely, if ever, would we
delete a core value. Our values are basic to our nature and include such
things as truthfulness, honesty, responsibility and compassion and
become the basis for our ethical behaviours. Our values directly impact
our attitudes and our behaviour. These are inherent and basic to the
human condition and although some people do not live by these values,
at a subconscious level they would still be aware of them. Value also
depend upon ethnic culture, for example a head hunter from the New
Guinea Highlands may feel no compunction about killing his opponent
from a neighbouring tribe, but a similar action from a person in Western
society would be culturally, socially and personally repugnant.
Many countries are experiencing a challenge to their cultural values as
a result of the numerous wars raging across the globe. These conflicts
create waves of refugees around the world. Many people hold
compassion, love and truth as core values, but are swayed by
inflammatory stories that appear in the media warning of having their
culture impinged by such migration. Some sections of the press
succumb to political pressure by stating that the refugees are illegal and
“queue jumpers.” Such reporting immediately attacks cultural values of
fair-play and honesty that society holds collectively and individually.
Those wishing to sway public opinion are able to use the resulting
confusion within the general public to their own benefit. The deliberate
ploy of using inflammatory language and striking at the heart of
commonly held values creates the confusion and this leads to argument
within the population. Agreement under those circumstances can
never be reached. While ever the population is in disagreement with
each other, based on the conflict of core values, the original problem,
the refugees, simply grows, compounding the mental confusion of those
affected. The population verbally attacks each other because they see
their own values being compromised, not only through the stories that
are spread through the media and fanned by their political puppeteers,
but impinged also by their friends, neighbours or even family members
who may hold differing and certainly disparate views. Every individual
worries for their own values and beliefs but also for their cultural and
societal held values and instead of concentrating on the values
themselves, such as love and compassion, they concentrate on the fear.
People who are manipulated by deliberate cajoling of opinion are
reluctant to change their opinion through further argument because of
an ego defence mechanism that comes into force to protect the mind
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have been rationalised through argument put forward by the media, for
example, in relation to a particular theme such as a reason for a
country to go to war or to reject refugees. The defence mechanism of
the ego driven behaviour comes about through a moral stand taken by
an individual, who may believe a story that aligns with his or her moral
values. For example, the world was told that Muslim hijackers had
taken planes and crashed them into the World Trade Centre towers and
that event was the justification for the following actions that included
the so called ‘war on terror.’ The ‘natural’ vengeful feelings, ignited by
the attacks, were fuelled by the intense media pressure of a group of
politicians who aimed at the moral outrage of the general public. The
arguments put by these individuals were aligned directly with the
public’s values. Ego defence, then was a normal reaction against
anyone who put an alternative view, for example that the whole
scenario was perpetrated not only by the individual hijackers, but also
by other forces unseen. This alternative view was quickly, but quietly
given the label of ‘conspiracy,’ which made those arguments appear to
be implausible.
Ego defence reinforces the original view, taken by the mind and
reinforced through subconscious memory of what is perceived to be
right and just by the individual, in order to protect those values. The
thought processes undertaken are an unorganised and non-coherent
jumble that do not necessarily relate to a particular time line, but
somehow align with feelings of righteousness. Contradictions in
evidence are not perceived as such and logic is not required in this
process, however where personal boundaries are deemed to be
conflicted, strict thought processes follow and conscious thought is then
organised in a way to align with the evidence that has been provided.
Ego defence would thus be required to maintain a view, undertaken
through media manipulation (such as Bush, Howard and Blair
undertook when selling the idea of the war on terror) and so would be
unlikely to change unless considerable evidence was provided to the
contrary. Such evidence would have to be ‘sold’ in a more forceful way,
or over a much longer period of time, in order to sway the original
opinion. It is this long time frame that always confronts the
warmongers as, eventually as the truth leaks out like a faulty faucet.
The general public wearies of the mayhem of war for any number of
reasons, from financial cost to human degradation and the useless and
pointless loss of life. Calls for the end to war by the public of the
aggressors, are not usually taken for humanitarian reasons, however.
These societies usually see a need for war’s end from a financial, hip
pocket perspective. Rarely is the plight of war victims discussed in
depth, unless the war extends over a protracted period and journalists
are able to report without edit. Such ease of reporting has not happened
in the Iraq conflict, however, with network journalists required to seek
approval from authorities before being able to get their stories out.
When we do not live by the values that are set in our early life and even
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psychological miss-match that ultimately leads to inner conflict,
manifesting itself in psychotic and other psychological behaviours.
Inner values are inherent and although they may not necessarily be
acknowledged consciously, they remain known at a subconscious level
of being. When we ignore our values and beliefs and conduct our lives
by ignoring those values and beliefs, our mental state is in turmoil,
which is then displayed in maladaptive and irrational behaviour. We
sometimes see this type of behaviour displayed by inexperienced
politicians when they want to tell the truth, but realise they cannot.
The mental result is referred to as cognitive dissonance and such
turmoil affects our value judgements and can lead to procrastination
and feelings of general and vague discomfort. Major political parties
spend considerable effort in teaching their party members how to sell
their ideas to camera through the use of such techniques as N.L.P.
Rarely these days, do we see a politician looking askance when
answering questions. Its all about appearance rather than substance.
Culture and upbringing impact the decisions of the acceptance of values.
Indeed, the New Guinea Highlander would probably feel repulsed by not
killing his opponent and such repugnance would lead him to cognitive
dissonance. The knowledge imprinted on his soul guides him to follow
those values instilled in him as his truth and it is by following this
innate drive that is within us all, to achieve his desires that fulfil his
spiritual quest. The desire to achieve is the desire to respond to the
drive that is within all living things, both man and beast and it is by
ensuring satisfaction of all desires, as they arise, one after the other,
that completes us spiritually. To achieve this sense of fulfilment, in
accordance with our values and beliefs, should be our goal. To deny
ourselves, is to deny the very life force within and if we follow such
denial in order to comply with outside directive, we subjugate ourselves
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 Chapter Four

Globalisation and Its Impact on Values

We have yet to reach September’s end and already the world population
growth for the year, is nudging fifty four million people. On this day
(and its only mid afternoon) more than two hundred thousand babies
have been born. Every forty years, the global population doubles.
Within five hundred years, the world population will have to stand
shoulder to shoulder. Clearly, this rate of growth cannot continue. So
what will happen? The temptation is to say that the human species will
survive no matter what happens, after all, hasn’t life been evolving now
for four billion years? Stephen Hawking has been described as an
intellectual icon of our time and it is his view that “the human race has
not come this far, just to snuff itself out…” (19) I disagree and believe
such a view is the height of arrogance. Why should homo sapiens be any
more distinguished than the ninety nine point nine percent of the total
species that ever existed and are now extinct? 99.9% of all species that
have ever existed are now extinct! It’s a sobering thought and one that
bears contemplation. Do we place ourselves above all else that has ever
inhabited this planet? A typical species becomes extinct within about
ten million years of its first appearance.(20) It has been estimated that
over half the existing species that inhabit the earth, will be extinct
before the year 2100. No species has ever had the capacity to obliterate
itself and everything else at the same time, until ‘modern man’ evolved.
DNA is the basis of all life on earth and is the hereditary code lodged in
our cells, which holds pieces of information given to us from our
ancestors. Almost all the code stored in our DNA is the same for all
people. Less than one percent of your genetic code is unique to you and
yet it says everything there is to know, about you. If the DNA from the
chromosomes from your cells were unwound, they would stretch to the
moon and back, one hundred and fifty thousand times. This really is an
amazing piece of engineering and yet it takes very little for things to go
wrong. Three copies instead of two for chromosome twenty-one, will
lead to Downs syndrome. Genetic mistakes are tough.
Researchers have been hampered in gaining knowledge about how the
differences in cells occur. What makes a brain cell, or a liver cell for
that matter? What makes the cells in a heart, beat? Up until now,
scientists have not had the tools to investigate the inner workings of
cells. They needed really, really small, microscopic in fact, cameras to
understand how these living machines that, make up you and me work.
If they could develop such powerful microscopes, they could watch in
real time, genes working in one single chromosome. They could
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instructions behave as they crawl along the ladder of the DNA strand.
With nano technology all the scientists’ dream may have come true.
Ned Seeman is a nanotechnologist at New York University and in 2009,
was able to demonstrate three-dimensional DNA crystals. Nano-
technology makes possible for atoms and molecules to self assemble
without external direction. In other words, we now have the ability for
nanostructures to build themselves. It is generally seen that self-
assembled products are free from defects. There are, quite naturally,
many wonderful applications of this technology. Specific delivery of
targeted cells for example may lead to the transmission of cells that
induce apoptosis or, cell death. The life cycle of cells is pretty much a
mirror of life anywhere else on the planet. They come into existence,
grow, replicate, rest and then die through programmed death called
apoptosis. At some time during this process, virus, bacteria or other
carcinogens can affect cells and the programmed cycle of death is
“switched off.” These mutated cells then continue the cycle of
duplication and create the communities, which become known to us as
tumours. Nano technology, through targeted delivery of cells that
induce cellular death, could switch off the duplication process of tumour
cells and so be an effective force in overcoming cancer.
It would appear at first glance, that nanotechnology is the twenty first
century’s Golden Fleece, but some sections of the community have
voiced fears about long-term effects. Professor Richard Handy of
Plymouth University discovered that titanium dioxide causes nerve
cells to die in the brains of fish. Titanium dioxide is the whitener used
to make some white foods, whiter; it is also used in sun block and again
in make-up. The nano-particles of titanium dioxide, it turns out, build
up over time and some people have suggested that this may be the
twenty first century asbestos. Even though long term safety testing has
not been conducted around nanotechnology, it is already widely used in
foodstuffs. On June 1, 2011, Science Daily reported “With the curtain
about to rise on a much anticipated new era of ‘nano-culture’… scientists
are reporting a huge gap in knowledge about the effects of nano-
particles on corn, tomatoes, rice and other food crops... getting into soil,
fertilisers, growth enhancers and other nano-cultural products.” While
the medical hypothesis for nano-technology is exciting, the long-term
health effects of this science in food do not appear to be documented and
while the promise of high yield and drought resistant crops suggest an
end to hunger, the technology did nothing to prevent the land locked,
former French colony of Niger, where repeated famine threatens many
millions of people. The medical benefits of nano-technology, does
nothing to assist the more than twelve million children, left orphaned
by the Aid’s pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. That is three times, the
total number of living, Australian children.
Global disasters are not ranked on a scale of devastation or loss of life,
but rather their strategic value to the various security agencies
throughout the world. As human beings, we are xenophobic in our
humanitarian outlook. We look at the wars in the Middle East, from a

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perspective of “how does this affect me or my country?” and the
genocide that occurs in so many countries around the world, hardly
even make page four of our national newspapers, while the private life
of superstars dominate the headlines. In 2005, Medecins Sans
Frontieres received three times the seventeen million pounds they
asked for through donation, after the tsunami that devastated the
Indonesian coastline. MSF began contacting donors late in January
2005 to ask if the money could be used in relief work where millions of
people had been displaced in Darfur region and the Sudan. Twenty
percent of United States and German donors asked for their money
back. (23) After the tsunami, Sky TV News dispatched fifty reporters to
the region, while they had only one reporting on the millions of deaths
and other disasters in Africa.
Ted Koppel, anchor of ABC’s Nightline, opened his program on 11
January 2005, with these words: “We humans are a curious, if not
bewildering, bunch of creatures. What is it that allows us to turn away
from any number of tragedies, say, Rwanda, Congo, Sudan, while
opening our hearts and cheque books to the victims of the tsunami in
Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and India? You will hear any number of
theories over the next half hour.
We are, it seems, put-off by tragedies that involve both the heroics and
villainies of war and politics. A giant tsunami, a natural disaster on the
other hand, is nonjudgmental. By that standard, though, we should have
flooded Iran with aid and generosity last year, after its devastating
earthquake in Bam. We did not. We have not. Nor has the world
community made good on its promises of aid following Turkey’s terrible
earthquake.
Maybe race and religion have something to do with it. All those Blacks
in Africa and those Muslims in Turkey and Iran. But Indonesia is the
world’s largest Muslim community, and many people in Sri Lanka and
India are just as dark as the Tutsi in Rwanda.
As for the numbers of victims, the ongoing tragedies in Congo and
Sudan have killed millions and continue to kill at a horrifying rate.” (22)
Like it or not, much of the world’s fiscal and military might is controlled
by America, where the real wages of average workers barely increased
in more than thirty years to 2006, while the richest of that country had
their taxes more than halved. The top marginal rate of tax decreased
from 70% in 1980 to 28% in 1989. (2). When the Obama administration
attempted to bring in Medicare legislation so that all citizens would
have reasonable access to medical facilities, they were called
communist, no matter that many western countries, including Australia
had similar legislation for more than thirty years. General Motors
Corporation posted profits of over four billion dollars while
simultaneously eliminating tens of thousands of jobs. Often in America,
adult and juvenile detention facilities are sub contracted to private
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firm contracted to administer this centre, was owned at the time by two
entrepreneurs, one of whom was attorney Robert Powell whose friend
Judge Michael Conahan used his influence to shut down the county’s
public juvenile facility and helped Powell get the $58 million contract to
provide services to Luzerne County. (3). It is estimated that six
thousand five hundred juveniles were incarcerated unjustly. The
contracting firm was paid by per inmate.
There is an old saying that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts
absolutely. Leadership is sometimes generally attained through hard
work, good luck, great timing, manoeuvring of alliances and removal of
opponents and sometimes it is inherited, but at its core, its about power
and influence. Without great leaders companies would collapse, politics
would be a shambles and countries would be in chaotic anarchy. Not
much different to what society experiences now really. Great leaders,
though, are not only required as the elected officials of our governments
and large corporations, leaders are required at all levels of business and
community. Greatness could be defined by those values that apply
individually such as honesty, compassion, responsibility and ethics.
What happens when leaders contrive to use their power to control
others in order to dominate, at their followers’ expense? The line of
morality is quite often blurred when absolute power is available and the
rules that govern do not apply. Nixon held such a view during the
Watergate scandal by admitting “the President is above the law.” Often
we see leadership in some remote part of the world being intoxicated by
their power and through the use of sycophantic followers, they continue
their rule, often through the use of brutality, but great leaders are
assertive and have strong decision-making abilities and take into
account the moral and ethical judgements that have to be made.
Sometimes, through having absolute power, leaders use their excessive
influence to feed their desires with scant regard for others. Hero
leaders always have their community in mind, whether that community
is their family, town or even their country. World leaders, one would
hope, think of the planet as their community. This may be a simplistic
comparison, however, sometimes the simple approach is the best. All
too often we watch leaders distance them selves from their own
morality as they side step questions around decisions and events. The
previous President of The United States did some side-stepping prior to
leaving office when he ensured that he and his fellow administration
officials could not be sued for decisions taken in regard to the invasion
of Iraq and Afghanistan and the use of torture during interrogation of
inmates at Guantanamo Bay. Poor leaders appear to fail morally and
ethically, but as a society, do we accept a certain amount of immorality
and lower ethical standards from more popular or heroic leaders by
accepting their explanations of such misdemeanours when discovered?
How much of such acceptance is garnered through the use of socially
and politically obtained power? A rule for the super-rich and another
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Perhaps some people do what they do, because they can. Others may
justify their actions in answer to their obligations or for ‘the greater
good.’ Such justifications could apply to anyone in society, not just
influential leaders. What might we say, as a society, when a leader tells
us that they did what they did because their actions were within
rational limits and were necessary? In these days of accepted spin, we
watch world wide and wide eyed when leaders avoid rape charges with
apparent impunity and others who have committed genocide walk
freely in any country of their choosing and even others who are
obviously far, far richer at the end of their official term in public office,
than they were when they were first elected.
Many citizens feel disempowered when observing the actions and
decisions of multi national and globalized companies. Some companies
appear to be so powerful, that to the uninitiated, they are above the law.
Some might say that they are the law. Frequently, we see nations being
stripped of their autonomy by outside influences with the most powerful
being hailed as the enforcer of rule. A recent Prime Minister of
Australia was proudly proclaimed as “the sheriff” of the Asian pacific as
he strutted after his more powerful ally. Often standards are demanded
of countries by those more powerful, even though they themselves do
not observe similar standards. The United States demanded abolition of
the death penalty as a condition for Turkey’s accession to the European
Union and yet Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger had Stanley “Tookie”
Williams, a Nobel Peace Prize and Nobel Prize for Literature nominated
prisoner, put to death by lethal injection in a Californian institution
even though nine circuit court judges believed Williams’ trial had been a
travesty of justice and based on false evidence and racially motivated.
Legal Imperialism has seen the United States demand international
organisations adopt procedures modelled on American procedures.
Such regulation often sees domestic law right-of-participation
evaporate. (4). There is a rupture between law and state as legal
concepts become global and as trade becomes “world trade.” The rule of
law appears to be quickly morphing into global law, which runs the risk
of becoming, as James Russell Lowell commented, “a machine that runs
itself.”
The retribution administered by the law of this new order is the
surrogate democracy of those who hold the power and the governance
of this power over-rules the state. Law has always been about universal
principles without prejudice to all regardless of sex, race, culture and
economic status however, despite these lofty ideals, the law has never
really worked this way and appears now to be paving the path for the
powerful. Ask the poorest of the poor to tell you the last time they got a
good deal. Free trade agreements have blurred the rules. The
globalization of law has influence beyond the state.
The founder of the Rothschild dynasty, Mayer Rothschild, once said,
“Let me issue and control a nation’s money supply and I care not who
makes its laws.” Power is seen through the lens of money. Just as the
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sensory experience, so organisations adjust their reality according to
power, which then directly relates to financial wealth and influence.
With the growth of free trade, many jostle for leadership and the
maintenance or establishment of their power base. As the twentieth
century hyper-power, the United States has been an obvious target for
the debate around the fair administration and distribution of power.
Now in the twenty first century much of the global unrest that
permeates society stems from unequal distribution of power and
influence. Just as in any relationship where two partners experience
difficulty, one party shuts down communication while the other
increasingly becomes aggressive. When these people war with each
other, the aggressiveness and lack of communication alternates
between them. The world community is in a series of relationships and
we often see the same signs of failure within and between countries, as
we do in personal situations.
Many people argue that the United States has had its opportunity to use
its power and establish wealth and now is the time for such wealth to be
shared. Others argue that America does not do enough to assist. The
Americans on the other hand, argue that they fought hard for what they
see as their successes and are reluctant to share their hard earned
abundance. All is not as it first appears, however, ask an average
citizen in that America if they feel wealthy. Five years into the deepest
housing crisis since the great depression, many are awaiting the next
round of foreclosures. Many more people will lose their homes in the
United States in times to come, forcing down home prices and effecting
the economy overall. Nearly one quarter of all Americans owe more
than their homes are worth. The housing crisis has wiped off more than
seven trillion dollars in household wealth. Meanwhile, the banks, which
some say started the crisis through miss-management and poor lending,
are increasing their wealth and profit margins. Chase Bank appeared
proud of the fact that they helped borrowers stay in their homes and
assist homeowners more than twice as often as they foreclosed. A ratio
that would have seemed ludicrous a decade ago and a sad reflection on
the standards accepted in today’s society. All of this occurs in a country
that proclaims itself as the pinnacle of democracy and wealth creation.
Little wonder that those in poorer countries display their anger and
frustration by expressing that frustration against the largest target the
world has produced. But who really has the wealth here, when one in
four households are facing financial ruin through the loss of their family
home, because lenders such as the banks require the loans they made,
(some under questionable circumstances) to be repaid no matter what?
Household net worth in America fell by more than twenty five percent
in the two years to 2009. Two years earlier, the richest one percent of
the American population owned almost thirty five percent of the
country’s wealth. At the same time, eighty percent of the population
owned just fifteen percent. During the recession that started in 2007,
the top one percent of the population, that one percent who already
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grow an extra two percentage points and the income of that same group
grew ten times faster than the bottom ninety percent of the population.
Home ownership is one of the main sources of wealth creation among
families in the western world. However the rate of ownership is not
even across the racial divide. Black families in the U.S. are often forced
to pay up to thirty three percent more than their white counter-parts
for finance and such prices often disbar the non-white population from
ownership. At times, even when they are able to buy property, white
people often leave the neighbourhood and property prices reduce,
creating a spiral of reduced values and higher finance costs. Home
ownership for black people is twenty five percent less than it is for
whites. Bankers making suspect and predatory loans to people who
never had the ability to repay caused the Global Financial Crisis. Some
banks, including Wells Fargo are now facing court action over predatory
lending that stripped assets and wealth from the black population. The
city of Memphis contends that Wells Fargo targeted specific individual
property owners, which resulted in property foreclosures. Federal
District Court Judge Motz said, “Wells Fargo deliberately steered
African-American borrowers who qualified for prime mortgages into
subprime loans. As a result, borrowers who could have kept up with
payments on a prime loan defaulted because of the more expensive
subprime payments.”(7)
The policies of global organisations such as The World Bank, The World
Trade Organisation and the International Monetary Fund are made
through agreements, discussions and policy construction, behind closed
doors with no general public interaction. The director of the World
Trade Organisation declared that his goal for the organisation was the
“writing (of) the constitution for a single global economy.” (5). These
powerful organisations appear not to trust each other as the
International Monetary Fund refused to inform the World Bank about
their economic policies and negotiations even in a joint venture. (6).
Poverty levels have increased and free market economies have
collapsed into chaos with foreign exchange rates also in downward
trends. The disparity between rich and poor is stark and with such
differences, civil unrest generally follows. Recurrent unrest has the
effect of reducing the potential for economic growth with a
corresponding increase in poverty levels. Conflicts across the globe
affect many millions of people with resultant losses, not only in dollar
terms to the individual, but also in human development. Persistent
poverty levels increase the propensity for engaging in conflict and
increase the disparity between the social classes and within those
societies, there is a growing rift in social cohesion and increasing public
and private debt.

The American public experienced sudden and wide spread debt, when,
in 1907 a run occurred on their banking system after an announcement
by J. P. Morgan that a prominent bank in New York was insolvent.
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Monetary Commission, headed by Nelson Aldrich eventually
recommended a centralised banking system. Aldrich was related
through marriage to John D Rockefeller and had ties to J. P. Morgan. In
1910 he attended a meeting with Morgan and Rockefeller and a number
of their banking cartel group members. The result was a draft for the
legislation to establish the Federal Reserve. These men were private
bankers, not politicians. Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve
Act, into law after the draft was passed through Congress in the early
hours of the morning while most members were with their families for
the Christmas holidays. The legislation passed through the senate the
following day and signed into law that same night. United States money
now came from private hands and every dollar created became, and still
is an instrument of debt. Woodrow Wilson later wrote “…no longer a
government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and
the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of
small groups of dominant men.”(8)
“A note issued by a central bank, such as the Federal Reserve Note, is
bank currency. These notes are given to the government in exchange
for an interest bearing government bond. The primary means to pay for
the interest on these bonds is to borrow more bank notes, thus
beginning a vicious cycle that ultimately ends with the complete
destruction of the currency and bankruptcy of the nation”(9)
In 1971, president Richard Nixon floated the U.S. dollar. In effect, he
severed the link to gold that had, to that point, underpinned the value of
an American dollar. The result was that gold began its inexorable climb
in value and the world’s currencies now “floated” against one another.
The gold standard for the value of currency had now been abandoned.
To that time, Americans faced fines or imprisonment for the ownership
of gold bullion, a penalty introduced by the Roosevelt administration in
flawed reasoning as an answer to declining prices in the Great
Depression. Roosevelt created business cartels to keep prices high and
ordered the mass destruction of farm animals and crops in an attempt
to create shortages and drive prices even higher. Roosevelt’s
administration then devalued the American dollar by more than forty
percent. These actions allowed the Federal Reserve to increase the
amount of money in circulation thus increasing revenue from interest
gained. Under President Charles de Gaulle, France demanded gold in
exchange for the American dollars held by that country, an act that
threatened to completely deplete the reserves held by the U.S. treasury.
When Nixon closed the gold window, foreign countries could no longer
exchange their American held dollars, for gold.
Science has created and continues to create amazing, modern marvels
and yet society craves economic security, social morals, virtue and
happiness. We have a certainty of what constructs the universe and yet
many among us have difficulty constructing life. Modern warfare is the
most destructive force known to human kind and yet armies mass on
territorial borders every day, awaiting the electronic order to attack
and unleash their awful might. The death of millions and the

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destruction of centuries old culture occur for the sake of some
anonymous and perhaps childish insult. There is a lot of money for
some, through the creation of war.
Modern medicine has overcome the scourges of a hundred years ago
and diseases such as cholera and typhus and even tuberculosis is so
rare as to say they do not exist. And yet it is not these ancient ills that
killed so many, that appear to be today’s society’s problem, but the
simple ills of infection. The golden bullet of the twentieth century, in the
form of antibiotics has created super bacterium in the twenty first
century. Disease in modern society threatens to repeat the history of
the nineteenth century. History repeats and the society that does not
learn from its history is doomed to repeat it. Modern society is
committing the same mistakes as all of antiquity. The life we have
created threatens to become impossible to sustain.
We are experiencing today, a withering of society, where church and
religious organisations seek the state to assist the poor, the hungry and
to house the homeless, rather than assisting those people themselves.
There is a loss of virtue in today’s society which values self-absorption
above all else. With the loss of societal virtue, there is a loss of tradition,
historically given by the churches, now scrambling to be modern and
with that modernity; they place value upon the dollar before the value
upon their parishioners. How many churches are for sale or have been
sold in your city? Not so many years ago, parishioners would have
rallied to keep their community church doors open, now they go there
to gamble or to visit the real-estate agent who now calls the church his
office. Loss of tradition means loss of friendship, of community and
social cohesiveness and a loss of honesty, truth and courage.
Society’s leaders cry out for responsibility and yet the gatekeepers of
that society’s morals refuse their own responsibility for fear of the cost
as they side step law suits and fabricate lies, designed to fool everyone,
but in fact, fooling no one but themselves. Who are the modern
gatekeepers of society’s morals when the churches, those traditional
and archetypal founders of virtuous life, pretend that nothing is wrong
on their sinking ship?
The increase in patriotism, seen in many western countries, is a symbol
of the transfer of religious belief and practice, from church to state. For
many years, attendances of the Christian churches, dropped almost by
the week as their flock became disillusioned with their performances
and attempts to modernise their approach. Little did they realise that
people ached for the tradition and values. As the churches lost their
influence, the state increased its influence through fear based politics
and manipulation of the media. Runaway self-absorption was the result
and it comes from the loss of wisdom traditions and the loss of religious
traditions and values. As we lose the relationship to God, planet and
each other, we increase self-absorption that shows itself in
individualistic behaviours. Traditions, family, community and civil
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apparent. Society needs to value its individuals and individuals need to
value their society. There is a loss of virtue and values and an increase
in self-interest and with the loss of virtue and values comes a loss of
traditions that include those of family community and social
cohesiveness. This begins a stepping away from the common good in
modern society creating a disparity between hope on the one side and
fear on the other.
With the loss of the traditional churches and their own self-absorption,
society lacks a moral compass, historically provided them. The
churches used to be the gatekeepers of society’s morals. When these
traditional institutions fail, a vacuum arises and another institution
comes to fill the gap. Nature abhors a vacuum. Today’s society has
been awarded their moral compass by the financial institutions and
powerful corporations, who follow their own agenda. Governments
attempt to pick up the slack and between the three, the spin flows
completely out of hand.
Anything that is too powerful is a threat to freedom. Too much
government and the leaders succumb to the mentality of oligarchies
resulting in restrictive legislation impacting on freedoms and
aggressive stances with perceived enemies. While restricting personal
freedoms they appeal to patriotism and popularist, xenophobic
attitudes. Too much freedom for the financial markets, not only leads to
ultimate financial collapse of nations but, restricts the power of the
political systems in those countries as they become ever dependant
upon the money suppliers for their very survival. Some countries end
up paying more in interest than the worth of their Gross Domestic
Product, many countries have debt levels far greater than their Gross
Domestic Product. Japan’s debt level is almost twice their GDP. Who
owns the money used to service this debt? The worth of the Rothschild
dynasty, historically the world’s money suppliers is estimated at six
hundred trillion dollars. The Gross Domestic Product of the United
States is estimated at less than twenty trillion dollars. Too much
freedom leads to loss and restrictions throughout society, except for the
few.
Too much personal freedom also leads to chaos. Loss of respect for the
law and society’s rules because they impact on personal freedoms is
something that many communities have to deal with right now. Loss of
personal respect because self-respect takes effort and effort reflects on
my freedom to choose otherwise. Loss of respect for traditions for
similar reasons and this leads to a loss of self and community identity.
Too much freedom is not necessarily a good thing, so there needs to a
balance of all things. Everything in moderation perhaps. Like all life
forms, the members of our societies need to recognise those boundaries,
that at first glance appear to restrict freedom and yet boundaries
actually make freedom possible. There has been a movement within
society to do away with personal boundaries in an attempt to provide us
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crime, the perceived threat of terrorism and the creation of theatre
wars across the globe.
Boundaries, however, clarify our tasks in the establishment and
continuation of relationships throughout society. We are in
relationships at all times, with each other, community to community,
country to country and with the planet and throughout these
relationships, we need to have clearly defined rules and boundaries in
place. Without such healthy rules and boundaries, we cannot enjoy
healthy relationships. We witness the breakdown of such boundaries
when the land is stripped of its resources with little or no thought of
reparation. Once resources are gone, they’re gone. Through boundaries,
we maintain the integrity of the encapsulated intent. Boundaries are
the parental care of children, the loving nurture of husband and wife, of
partner to partner.
Boundaries grow and expand as relationships grow, but even with such
expansion we recognise the rules and treat them with respect.
Expansion does not mean abandonment or to become disassociated, a
situation often witnessed in long term relationships, where one partner
is disaffected with the other. The boundaries of old have been caste off
through the worn out vestiges of time and effort. These people have in
fact become disconnected from each other and with sch disconnection
comes disrespect. The original rules of respect have gone. Healthy
boundaries mean the maintenance of respect, for our loved ones, our
friends and our environment.
Too many rules have a similar effect as too few. They limit us and
prevent us from being fully alive. They overprotect and intimidate with
the false promise of security. Boundaries allow us to play our vital roles
and allow us to fully and meaningfully connect. The over abundance of
rules are a restriction upon us designed by the makers of such
boundaries, to subjugate and dominate. Healthy boundaries allow us to
create deep connection with our fellow beings and our planet, they are
flexible when held in healthy perspective and allow us a greater
capacity to love. They are the membrane of the matrix that connects all
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 Chapter Five

War! What Is It Good For?

The United States Government has committed its population to repay a

debt of more than fourteen trillion dollars to cover the cost of the wars
in Iraq and Afghanistan. Australia committed more than twenty billion
dollars between 2001 and 2006. (15). By 2011 that figure had risen to
thirty billion dollars. The people of these countries commit to the debt
through their elected representatives and they do so in taxes and
interest rates, poorer services and less infrastructure and they commit
their children, grandchildren and generations there-after, by allowing
their politicians to literally get away with murder. America dominates
the world as the military super-power. No one country can match their
preparedness for war. The conflict in Iraq began in March 2003 with
the bombing of Baghdad where civilian men, women and children were
killed. Many of the guided weaponry ‘missed’ their marks. The United
States went from having the world’s sympathy for the tragedy of the
Twin Towers, to experiencing the very opposite such a short time later.
But perhaps those missed targets were not missed at all. Tensions
between America and China had surfaced sometime prior to the
invasion, when Pentagon officials accused a Chinese company, Huawei,
of laying fibre optic communications, cabling between Iraqi anti-aircraft
batteries, radar stations and command centres, which the Americans
believed would aid Baghdad to shoot down U.S. aircraft patrolling the
“no-fly” zones over northern and southern Iraq.
Congress withdrew its approval for the Iraq war on the 18th. December
2011. Estimates vary on the number of deaths caused through the
conflict from one and thirty thousand men, women and children, to
more than one million people. The conflict in Iraq was aimed squarely
at securing the world’s oil supplies from that region and allowed the
neo-conservative right of American politics to exert their authority.
George Bush had held a private agenda to invade Iraq and oust Suddam
Hussein for a number of years.
In order to create a belief that Iraq was implicated in the Twin Tower
tragedy, the Administration set about a frenzied media campaign that
used every trick in the book to ensure success in launching their war.
Less than four percent of the American people believed that Iraq was
implicated in the so-called 9/11 attacks, but after the media campaign,
almost seventy percent of the population had been convinced. George
Bush, who never appeared to be the brightest of American Presidents,
admitted that the United States had no evidence against Saddam
Hussein regarding “weapons of mass destruction,” and so created more
spin around the story that the world was better off without the dictator
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Bush began a program of labelling his opponents and critics and then
denigrating those labels. You were either a patriot or an enemy of the
state. Australian Prime Minister, Howard did the same and committed
that country to a war for which Howard’s government had no mandate,
however he had done such a great job of creating a story around
patriotism, danger from terrorists and through creating an
environment of fear, that few people opposed him.
Howard met with Bush on the 10th. September, 2001 and had an almost
psychic understanding of the American administration’s explanation to
the world media in relation to the attacks and said in a statement that
anyone who thought Australia was immune to such terrorist attack
“was deluding themselves.” Howard had met with the US President a
year earlier and was aware of the neo-conservative push to install
America as the dominant military world force. The ideal for such a
global power had its birth through an arch-conservative think tank,
referred to later as PNAC.
The PNAC began in June 1997 and was right wing, neo-conservative
and came to exert major influence on George W Bush’s foreign and
military policies. The group, known as the Project For The New
American Century, released their Statement of Principles, which,
among other things, called for the disarmament of Iraq and a
restructuring of power in the Middle East. The PNAC, called for
America to “fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major
theatre(s) (of) war. According to German journalist and author, Jochen
Bolsche, the plan to rebuild America’s defences was authored by
Cheney, Wolfowitz Rumsfeld and Libby with the intention of making
America the world’s dominant power and reshaping the global security
system according to US interests.
The group realised that their policies would not immediately be
acceptable to the general public and stated that such acceptance would
probably need an event they called “a new Pearl Harbour.”
The war in Iraq had really begun in 1997.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Britain’s Prime Minister
Tony Blair, met with Bush at his Crawford ranch in June 2002,
The forty-sixth vice President of the United States was Dick Cheney,
from Nebraska. Cheney began his political career as an intern during
the Nixon administration and by the elder Bush’s term as President, he
had become Secretary for Defence and oversaw “Operation Desert
Storm.” After he left George Bush senior’s administration, he became
the Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton and is reported to have
amassed a fortune of between thirty and one hundred million dollars
from his post at Halliburton, a Fortune 500 company and one of the
world’s largest oilfield services companies with operations in more than
seventy countries and total assets of more than fourteen billion dollars.
According to MSN Money, Halliburton has earned in excess of
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America, where it has been responsible for the construction of military
bases, oil field repairs and infrastructure projects.
Dwight Williams is a former Chief Security Officer for the United States
Government Department of Homeland Security under the Bush
administration. Dwight Williams is the head of DynCorp a company
responsible for the training of Iraqi police and security. DynCorp has
earned around one thousand four hundred and four million dollars
($1.44Billion) through its contracts with the United States Government
for the provision of these services in Iraq.
Washington Group International earned in the first few years of the
war, nine hundred and thirty one million dollars for providing repairs to
oil lines and oil fields in Iraq. Environmental Chemical, a company that
has close ties to several defence agencies and is staffed by graduates of
the US Navy’s Explosive Ordinance Schools, as well as the U.S. Army’s
Chemical Schools at Anniston, earned more than eight hundred and
eighty million dollars in the first three years of the war (11).
Aegis is a United Kingdom company with a Pentagon contract for four
hundred and thirty million dollars for participating in the training of
the Iraqi security forces. International American Products has
collected seven hundred and sixty million dollars for electrical
infrastructure in Iraq. Another company securing the oil fields is the
United Kingdom Company Erinys, which has earned more than one
hundred and thirty six million dollars. Fluor has a one point one billion
dollar contract to build, service and manage water and sewage services.
Perini, controlled by Richard Blum whose wife is Senator Dianne
Feinstein, has earned six hundred and fifty million dollars. Dianne
Feinstein sits on the Military Construction Appropriation
subcommittee. Another Blum controlled company, URS Corporation,
has earned seven hundred and ninety two million dollars. Neither Blum
nor Feinstein have agreed to supply document copies to the ethics
committee’s rulings on Perini and URS.
Despite reportedly mismanaging the construction of thirteen of their
fourteen projects in Iraq, Parsons a company based in Pasadena, has
earned five hundred and forty million dollars.
Democrat Representative Henry Waxman commented, “This is the lens
through which Iraqis will now see America, incompetence. Profiteering.
Arrogance. And human waste oozing out of ceilings as a result.”
Although “First Kuwaiti was not the lowest bidder” (as reported by
senior vice president Gilles Kacha) they did have ties to the Bush
administration and then they received contracts to the value of five
hundred million dollars to build the US embassy in Baghdad. Armor
Holdings is a subsidiary of BAE Systems and since the beginning of the
war, the company’s revenue has skyrocketed by two thousand two
hundred and forty seven percent to six hundred and thirty four million
dollars. The civil war between Sunni and Shia has increased the
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Communications has been paid three hundred and fifty nine million
dollars (to 2006) to train Iraqi security personnel. L3 purchased Titan
who had a billion dollar contract after they pleaded guilty to
international bribery charges and paid more than twenty eight million
dollars in fines under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
These are only some of the companies involved in the Iraq war. The
Afghani war is another area where people are prospering. The big
three, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman acquired
between them in 2004, just under fifty billion dollars ($49.7 to be exact
– but whose counting?) In 2003, they had shared more than fifty billion
dollars in Pentagon contracts.
Contracts in Afghanistan have been granted as “open ended contracts”
without competitive bidding and placed to politically connected
corporations. The same contractors we see in Iraq are represented in
Afghanistan. Halliburton, Rendon, DynCorp and others. Many of these
contractors pay their personnel up to one thousand dollars per day,
while Afghan employees receive about five dollars.
Some organisations make it their business to inform the public of the
excesses their governments encourage. One such organisation is
CorpWatch. “CorpWatch investigates and exposes corporate violations
of human rights, environmental crimes, fraud and corruption around
the world. Through its independent media network, CorpWatch fosters
global justice, accountability and democratic control of corporations.
(12). A highway that begins crumbling before it is finished. A school
with a collapsed roof and a clinic with faulty plumbing. A farmers’
cooperative that farmers can’t use. Afghan police and military who,
after training, are incapable of providing the most basic security. And
contractors walking away with millions of dollars in aid money for the
work.” Despite the reporting of agencies like CorpWatch, these
travesties of justice continue unabated.
History has a habit of being repeated by successive generations.
Abraham Lincoln’s Secretary of War was a man named Simon Cameron,
who was forced to resign in 1862 after charges of corruption relating to
war contracts. The difference is, that in those days, the politicians
resigned. While private and publicly listed companies obviously profit
from all wars, they do so with the approval of the countries involved
and others. Neil Mackay reported in the Sunday Herald of Scotland,
that prior to the hostilities in Iraq, Britain, France, Russia, America and
China allowed companies to supply weapons technologies to Iraq. A
dossier released by the Iraqi authorities in December 2003, claimed
that twenty-four U.S. companies sold weapons to Iraq. Hewlett-Packard
sold nuclear and rocket technology. DuPont sold nuclear technology.
Eastman Kodak sold rocket capabilities. The dossier claimed that some
fifty subsidiaries of foreign enterprises conducted their arms business
with Iraq, from the United States. The detailed dossier was twelve
thousand pages in length and claimed that a part of the U.S. Ministry of
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The U.S. requested that the document be censored and more than eight
thousand pages were removed from the report.
Germany, an opponent of the war in Iraq, had been Iraq’s biggest arms-
trading partner with eighty companies selling weapons technology to
that country. In April 1995, Mars Rotor and Niikhism sold parts used
in long-range missiles to a Palestinian who transported them to
Baghdad. In 2001 and 2002, the Chinese firm Huawei Technologies
sent supplies to Iraqi air Defense. Foreign companies supplied Iraq's
nuclear weapons program with detonators, fissionable material
and parts for a uranium enrichment plant.(13).
War is big business and most developed countries appear to have
involvement in earning financial benefit from the trade. Major
corporations that beatifically supply the general public with their
television sets, kitchen wares and telephones and who assist us to have
a wonderfully comfortable life, also manufacture, distribute and profit
from death and mayhem, which of course, is explained as making the
world a better place. Someone has to do it they say, and if they did not,
then someone else would. That’s the kind of thinking that keeps the
world teetering on the edge, always has and unfortunately, always will.
Planning for war is long term and entrenched and has little to do with
atrocities, but everything to do with brinkmanship, ego, money and
power. Unless of course, atrocities occur in a country that also has
great mineral wealth or vast quantities of natural resources.
The land between the Limpopo and Zambezi rivers used to be beautiful.
The high veldt of the central plateau was rich in forest life made richer
from the tropical climate. The spectacular Victoria Falls are one of the
largest and spectacular falls in the world. The Limpopo Valley was the
birthplace of the Shona people in the ninth century who developed a
sophisticated trading nation and traded gold, ivory and copper in
exchange for glass and cloth. Today, due to poverty, population growth
and deforestation, the country has been devastated. The once fertile
soil is degraded through a lack of woodland and erosion.
Born at a Jesuit mission, the country is ruled by an aging despot.
During his rule, the average male life expectancy has dropped by
twenty years. Women are only expected to live to the age of thirty-four.
The Arch-bishop of York has called him “the worst kind of racist
dictator.” After independence, the British Thatcher government had
provided forty four million pounds for the purchase of the six thousand
commercial farms and other lands to “willing buyers.” Tony Blair
stopped funding the “willing buyers, willing sellers” programme because
the ruling elite had taken all the farmland and the landless peasants
remained landless.
Former white land owners were forced, through intimidation and
torture, to leave their land by “war veterans” led by Chenjerai ‘Hitler’
Hunzvi, a veteran of Zimbabwe’s freedom struggle, who forced some
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murdered. Hunzvi joined the liberation forces after he was arrested,
aged sixteen years and spent time in Eastern Europe being trained in
Romania and Poland. He garnered considerable political clout through a
scheme where he issued disability pensions to thousands of war
veterans including cabinet ministers. Eventually, he was able to force
the regime to pay his organisation five billion Zimbabwe dollars. He was
accused of embezzling forty five billion dollars from war veteran funds,
but the trial was repeatedly postponed. He relished in the violence that
he created and often said, “I am the biggest terrorist in Zimbabwe.”
Hunzvi commanded raids on businesses and factories and was accused
of “mass psychological torture” on thousands of people.
The dictator, Robert Mugabe, issued a blanket amnesty for politically
motivated crimes that allowed Hunzvi to act with impunity. Hunzvi,
along with one hundred thousand other Zimbabweans, died of Aids
related illness in 2001. Mugabe and his henchmen have left hundreds
of thousands (actual figures may be closer to seven hundred thousand)
of his fellow countrymen homeless and has negatively affected almost
two and one half million others (18). Mugabe has been appointed as a
UN “leader of Tourism,” although he has had honorary degrees and
doctorates revoked, by several Universities both in Britain and
America.
Zimbabwe is poorly resourced and although virtual genocide is at play
in that country, the strongest retaliation from the “free world” is the
imposition of sanctions that affect the citizens and not the land holding
and political elite.
If you don’t have oil or weapons of mass destruction, you can get away
with murder.
Wars never break out overnight they take years of planning with
political support, blackmail and cajoling and the creation of
infrastructure to support the planned invasion. Political support is
always available in some corner of the spectrum, because certain global
industries have a vested interest in the creation and continuation of
conflict. Businessmen and some politicians see conflict as a chance to
make fortunes and create entropic brinkmanship as a powerbase and a
way to measure their own worth. Power, money and influence go into
the same milieu as a kind of penis measuring exercise. Global
industries equate to massive financial considerations. The Global
Financial Crisis has impacted growth and spending in all countries and
has been the most significant financial downturn since the 1920’s.
Entire nations have been brought to the edge of catastrophic
bankruptcy and yet funds pour into weapons and wars that are
conducted under the portent of restricting terror attacks, the risk of
which are made far worse through such intervention. The great
sadness of such conflict is the creation of terrorism through, perhaps,
heavy handed dealings, lack of respect and no effort at communication.
Since the invasion of Iraq, America, its allies and ethnic factions have
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that about thirty thousand Iraqis are held in prisons in unsanitary
conditions, without charge or trial and where charges of death from
torture abound.
So how did we come to this? Was it really a result of a terror attack in
New York in 2001 or were there other forces at play?
A powerful group in Washington believe military intervention is the way
of strength. They belong to the far right of U.S. politics, although their
roots are from the old left of the political spectrum. They were the anti-
communist liberals of the 1950s and 1970s. The neo conservative
movement labelled themselves as following “Wilsonianism” named after
President Woodrow Wilson, who was responsible for rushing through
the legislation that created the Federal Reserve and through such
legislation committed that country to a history of indebtedness to the
money lenders, however they are really the product of the far right
Israeli Likud movement of Zionism.
The motivation for the invasion of Iraq began after the end of the Gulf
War, instigated by Bush senior who was under pressure from Israel to
rid the Middle East of the Arab threat and to secure oil reserves. When
that war ended without the removal of Suddam Hussein, Secretary for
Defense, Dick Cheney and neo-conservative Paul Wolfowitz displayed
criticism for the failure to remove the dictator. The Saudi government
had encourage America in the restructure of the Middle East and later
encouraged Bush junior to “cut off the head of the snake” by ridding that
area of Iran also. Bush rattled his country’s sabres for a time, however
the U.S. citizens and the world population at large, were losing their
taste for war. The Saudis then embarked on the next best option for
them and supplied the rebels of Syria with weapons. Syria was the only
real ally of Iran and through the creation of civil war in that country the
Syrian government would be less inclined to support another country in
their time of crisis. The civil war in Syria that rages as I write this
document is not about the rights of that country’s people. Its not about
their freedoms, or of atrocities committed against them, its about
creating a long drawn out conflict that is aimed at weakening their
government so that Iran stands alone and therefore becomes an easier
target for the hawks of war.
In a New York Times article dated 8th. March, 1992, it was reported that
a policy statement, prepared under the supervision of Wolfowitz,
asserted that “no rival superpower is allowed to emerge in Western
Europe, Asia or the territory of the former Soviet Union.” The classified
document made the case for world domination by one superpower. The
document portended that America’s administration would tolerate
greater aspirations for regional leadership, a reason perhaps, that
countries such as Britain and Australia were so eager to commit to the
wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Australian Prime Minister grasped
an opportunity to be seen as the Asian Pacific leader. He relished in the
title of Bush’s sheriff of the Pacific region. The draft proposal, authored
by Wolfowitz and already signed off by Cheney was reported in the New

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York Times and gave a detailed justification for a military comprised of
1.6 million members. The cost estimate at the time was 1.2 trillion
dollars. The document stated “"The U.S. may be faced with the question
of whether to take military steps to prevent the development or use of
weapons of mass destruction," … those steps could include pre-empting
an impending attack with nuclear, chemical or biological weapons "or
punishing the attackers or threatening punishment of aggressors
through a variety of means," including attacks on the plants that
manufacture such weapons.” (16)
A former President of The World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz was the leading
neo-conservative in American politics and was a major architect of
George W Bush’s Iraq policy put into effect after the World Trade Centre
incidents. Known as a hawkish advocate, Wolfowitz was the first to
suggest Iraq as a target, while at the Presidential retreat at Camp David,
after the September eleven attacks.
George W Bush, with a nomination that was criticised in the U.S media,
was the one who suggested Wolfowitz for the World Bank Presidency.
When the London bombings occurred in 2007, Wolfowitz attended the
press conference given by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Wolfowitz
appointed several close advisors from the Bush administration, on
lucrative contracts. In May 2007, a World Bank committee
investigating ethics violations reported “Mr Wolfowitz’s contract
requiring that he adhere to the Code of Conduct for board officials and
that he avoid and conflict of interest, real or apparent, were violated.”
Wolfowitz agreed to resign at the end of June 2007.
While still Chief Executive Officer of Halliburton in the year 2000, Dick
Cheney told the London Institute of Petroleum, just three years prior to
the Iraq invasion, “Oil remains fundamentally a government business.
While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle
East with two thirds of the world’s oil and the lowest cost, is still where
the prize ultimately lies…”
On the 9th. September, 2008, Alan Greenspan, Past Chairman of the
Federal Reserve said “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient
to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”
Afghanistan’s “population is larger, but much poorer, than Iraq's.
Eighty percent of its 35 million live on an average of $1 per day
(actually less). For $10 billion U.S., one tenth of what (is spent) on the
military, we could give those 28 million another $1 a day and double
their income. Stop and think how you would feel if someone doubled
your income. Doubled! We would be vastly more popular.
Given the popular support that would buy, (the military budget could be
cut) in half and still kick out the Taliban. In fact they would lose most of
their recruits, which are the children of families too poor to provide for
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But instead we run tiny aid programs that pay most of their money to
Western experts and corrupt officials. And we run a war that costs ten
times as much as the country's total income.” (17) Limited amounts of
financial aid go to the victims of our wars, however virtually unlimited
resources go to the development of the weapons and into the pockets of
vested interests.
The Guardian Newspaper in Britain reported that unmanned Aerial
Vehicles (referred to as UAVs so the name is not as threatening) are a
favoured tool of defensive attack in may parts of the world. Pakistan
has experienced more than three hundred attacks by such craft. We
know them as “Drones.”
Drones were first used in 1849 against the Venetians when Austria
launched about two hundred bombs attached to balloons, over the city
of Venice. Lieutenant Uchatius, the Austrian Officer responsible for the
Venetian attack, should have patented his idea, because one hundred
and sixty years later, the industry is worth about six billion dollars
every year, according to the Teal group. Life and death decisions are
now made robotically.
Drone technology has its benefits. After the tidal wave that hit Japan’s
coast in 2011, drones were used to inspect the damaged nuclear
reactor. These aircraft have a wide range of uses throughout the
community, from fighting bush fires, despite the conditions, to aerial
surveillance in crime prevention. The Civil Aviation Authority in
Britain reports that one hundred and twenty companies have been
given approval to fly unmanned aircraft in that country.
Drones are manufactured in over fifty countries and the vehicles are
sold to customers worldwide. Remotely controlled Drones have bombed
and killed more than one thousand people in Yemen since 2001, without
war being declared on that country. Anti U.S. (and its allies) sentiment
increases by the day, as people in Yemen and Pakistan pick up the body
parts of their loved ones after Drone strikes. It would appear that those
who make the decisions simply don’t care or don’t understand. It has
been suggested that the United States Air Force, replace its strategic
bombers with drones capable of carrying a nuclear payload. If that is
not frightening enough, drone technology has advanced enough that
some of these aircraft resemble insects and birds. The United States
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has implanted electrodes
into moths to learn how to control animals remotely, the organisation
has patents in place, or intended, so that “electrodes implanted into the
nervous systems of animals... provide clues and rewards by stimulating
specific regions of the brain to induce desired behaviours such as
direction and speed of movement.” And “to develop a “method for the
remote guidance and training of free roaming animal sensor networks.”
The British company BAE has a ground combat, remote controlled
armoured vehicle in development that can be operated at distance. This
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similar size to the traditional tank. It is able to plan its own route,
navigate around rocks and water. Lockheed already has remote
vehicles in use. Weighing in at around two and one half ton, they are
remotely controlled and used to maintain supplies to troops in battle,
neutralise anti tank mines, send photographs of battle terrain and
communicate with other unmanned vehicles and aircraft. Other
vehicles, also remotely controlled, have state of the art perception
abilities and are able to carry out military operations autonomously.
It seems that war may be becoming safer to conduct and an even more
one sided affair than it is today. Many billions of dollars are committed
and spent by the allied nations in their “war against terror”. Many
young lives have been lost by the allies, but more than one hundred and
thirty thousand lives have been lost by the inhabitants of the countries
invaded. Are the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan really “wars on
terror” or is there a more sinister reality to it?
A reasonable question might be “why spend billions of dollars invading a
country that had been decimated by ten years of international
sanctions, decimated by earlier wars, when it had no highly trained
army and virtually no modern armaments, which put up no co-
ordinated opposition? Was the resultant invasion then, heroic? Was it
even impressive (apart from the demonstration of fire power)? Defense
Secretary Rumsfeld stated that the guided weaponry used was “the
most precise ever seen in human history” and yet the Tomahawk
missile system had to be taken off line because it was so unpredictable
with missiles even landing in Syria, Jordan and Saudi territory.
It took intense international pressure for Britain and America to admit
some responsibility for maintaining order after the invasion and
destruction of Iraq’s infrastructure. Award winning, veteran journalist
John Pilger, reported in April 2003, that “David Miller, a media analyst
at Stirling University, calls it ‘public relations genius.’ It works like this.
Once the official ‘line’ is agreed and manufactured at the Coalition Press
Information Centre in Kuwait and the $1million press centre in Qatar, it
is submitted to the White House, to what is known as the Office of Global
Communications. It is then polished for British consumption by Blair's
staff of propagandists in Downing Street.
Truth, above all, is redundant. There is only ‘good’ news or no news.
For example, the arrival in Iraq of the British ship Sir Galahad with a
miserable few hundred tons of humanitarian aid was a "good" story
given wide coverage. What was missing was the truth that the Blair
government continues to back Washington's deliberate denial of
$5.4billion worth of humanitarian aid, including baby milk and medical
supplies. This is "aid" which Iraq has paid for (from oil receipts) and the
UN Security Council has approved.
What was also missing from such a moving tale of Britain-to-the-rescue
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 Chapter Six

Pigeon Holing For A Reason

The general tendency for governments in societies prone to unrest is to

meet that civil disobedience with military force resulting in resentment
and the risk of further unrest. It is unusual in such cases that good
policy options are enforced to bring about peaceful resolutions and
again, like all relationships, without communication and the ability to
appreciate the other’s position, there can be no peace. When leadership
takes on the oligarchic position and power rests with the entrenched
few, the obligation to see the other point of view, ceases to exist.
We construct, deconstruct and reconstruct our views through every
interactive experience. Change is a state of flux and although we
remain true to our values, our beliefs may alter according to experience.
Many of us are judged according to our beliefs and labels are applied.
Such labels are wide spread throughout the community. I’m a
Christian, you’re a Muslim, I’m a man and you’re a woman. We use
labels all of the time as a matter of convenience as they assist us to
understand. We adjust to, and fulfil many roles in life. I am a man, a
husband, a father, brother and son. Such roles are fixed, but as we
develop, additional roles make our lives more complex. I may have
been brought up to be a Christian, for example, but through influence
and experience a label may now describe me as Buddhist. Roles change
throughout life and as they change, the labels that best fit a description
of us also alter. Generally we see ourselves as evolving rather than
changing. The “I” of me is still the same as the “I” of me when I was a
teenager and even though I realise that great change has taken place
within my body involving its strength and health and looks, I see that
change as an evolution. I have evolved to the man who now fits the
label of author, a label given to me by others so that they can better
understand what I am, rather than who I am. Labels describe the
“what” and roles display the ‘who’.

Labels usually apply to those special roles that we play in life and
provide an external understanding of what to expect from our
behaviour. During the reign of the Nazi party in Germany, before and
throughout the Second World War, Joseph Goebbels, found great effect
in the use of labels to denigrate the enemies of the state. He found the
understanding of the equality of man to be ‘insane’ and labelled Jews
and International Jewry by giving them the labels of ‘horde’ and ‘filth’.
In this way he was able to denigrate and confuse the identities of Jews
as people and citizens and through these methods, he was able to make
the Jewish people appear less human through the application of labels
and thus, they would become more vulnerable. Continued attacks,
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It is important for someone who uses labels to denigrate and control the
opinions of others, to make the quarry less human and in this way,
when action is required against those who have been labelled, public
opinion is decidedly less virulent against such attack. Goebbels also
used the label of Bolshevism to describe how Nazi politics had driven
out the Marxist faction and its ideological content and racially linked
concepts. In this way, he was able to de-humanise his targeted enemies
by applying simple labels and through the use of such language, a type
of mass hypnosis handed his party the authority to carry out the
murder and genocide they then embarked upon with impunity.
The use of labels to denigrate again became popular throughout the
latter part of the twentieth century to great political effect. In
Australia, terms such as “boat people” and “queue-jumpers” to describe
people seeking asylum came into normal use. The Australian Prime
Minister, John Howard, said in an emotionally inflammatory statement,
aimed at garnering support for an upcoming Federal election “we decide
who comes into this country and the circumstances in which they
come.” Many countries criticised Australia’s stand and accused it of
evading its human rights responsibilities. The use of labels by Howard
was effective and by playing to the population’s xenophobic fears
around terror attack and being “over-run,” his government was able to
emerge victorious from an unwinnable election. Gradually the use of
derogatory labels gathered momentum and today it is seen as spin and
has normal political usage. Such labelling has become normal
throughout the community also, fanned by media and politicians alike,
in order to ensure support for each party’s agenda. Continued use of
labels, instead of references to people’s humanity, allows the population
to engender hatred toward certain groups without the immediate
reflection that these too, are people with feelings, families and desires.
Label usage is a common political tool, designed to instil ridicule
through their disparaging use toward certain groups of people, without
having to mention the political “thorn” that such people represent. We
might refer to “Greenies,” for example, without having to mention that
another old growth forest, hundreds, if not thousands of years old, is
about to be decimated. It is much easier and less repugnant to say,
“They’re just a bunch of Greenies.” The use of labels also assuages the
community conscience and so such labels become easily accepted so
that the pretence can be ongoing that nothing important is really
happening, or we don’t really have to think too much about the fact that
such forest growth will never return, or the torment that the refugees,
euphemistically labelled as “boat people” who arrive on our shores, have
gone through in order to get here and escape the persecution they and
their families have experienced.
Conspiracy theories. The label has been carefully constructed and
covers a wide range of people, some of who see conspiracy in almost
everything (and who is to say they are wrong?). More than twenty
years ago, I befriended a man who had been an airline pilot. He was well
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world order. “It has already started,” he told me “the monetary system
is already in the hands of the few…” I took little notice of my friend,
because I thought that he was a ‘conspiracy theorist.’ Now I realise that
a lot of what he told me has already come to pass and I wonder what our
future holds. The usage of labels dehumanizes the victim through the
erosion of empathy and compassion, which in turn assuages any
feelings of guilt on the part of the abuser who uses such labels to
describe another. One perpetuates the other.
Public opinion is said to represent the average opinion of the
community, however some believe that such opinion is, in reality, a
carefully scripted propaganda designed to elicit a public response (21) to
programmes already planned and in effect. It is interesting to witness
the various conflicts around the world and to notice that they do appear
to follow similar scripts – an international or coalition force is sent in,
NATO “peace-keepers” follow (and then stay), major stake holders
comprising allied countries supply ground troops and take over military
control. The local evil and demonic army’s trained militia, responsible
for previous slaughter, is stopped at all costs. Support troops from the
United States follow, in order to provide “support assets” with a United
Nations peacekeeping team. It is hard to disbelieve the theories.
Meanwhile the opinion of the public is carefully crafted in ninety-second
grabs through a media that selects those crises that fit their franchise
brand. Dramatic pictures and coverage of “breaking news” takes
precedent over news that requires process, rather than anecdote and so
we are fed a diet of celebrity breakups or western, social tragedy. We
become disengaged from international tragedies afflicting millions while
being entertained by photogenic, local events. “When relief workers
look at crises and see crises, for example, media look at crises and see
news which is, for most media, a commodity. Other professions—
engineers or health workers, for instance—might consider the same
crises and see needs of a global community or of individual victims.
Viewed in that light it is possible to understand why media institutions
do not have any inherent business instincts to cover even major
disasters beyond the initial cataclysm.” (24)
Societies that exist throughout the global community can be viewed in
the same way as groups of cells that make up our physical body. Groups
of cells construct our bodily organs, which when gathered together,
function to sustain life within the body and yet, as individuals, those
cells do not and cannot function as living entities, they only achieve that
status when grouped together and when their time within that
functioning group is come, they disassemble and begin again, to
revitalise the universe. Groups of communities, function in much the
same way to sustain the health of their state, country and our planet.
There can be little doubt that nature and all life on earth are
intrinsically linked. A logical step is to consider that all the cosmos is
linked in the same way through the commonality of atomic structure.
But apart from our knowledge that we are made of similar stuff, what
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evidence would show the use of labels and the denigration of and
violence toward our fellow man as being an act of mental self-
flagellation.
In order to understand the possibility of such evidence, we are indebted
to Leonardo Pisano, who lived in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Leonardo’s father was reputed to be a tax collector for the city of Pisa.
Son and father travelled together in India and Northern Africa and it
was here that Leonardo realised the comparative simplicity of the
numeric system used in those regions, compared to the Roman
Numerals then in use throughout Europe. At the age of thirty-two,
Fibonacci published a work entitled “Liber Abaci” in which he
introduced what is known today as Arabic numerals. The book was well
received and Fibonacci enjoyed the patronage of Frederick The Second,
who also had an interest in the sciences.
Leonardo Fibonacci is accredited with the introduction of a sequential
set of numbers to the Western world through the publication of “Liber
Abaci.” The sequence of these numbers can be found throughout nature
and even in Leonardo De Vinci’s paintings. These number sequences
are found in Sanskrit oral tradition. The ancients knew and understood
these sequences, which were attributed to Pingala around 450BC and
the Greek mathematician, Euclid of Alexandria.
The Fibonacci numbers were used in ancient India to describe musical
rhythms. The sequence is a natural sequence that describes growth and
from this, comes what is known as the “Golden Ratio.” The human brain
finds the proportions described by the Golden Ratio, pleasing. It is a
way in which we recognise our intrinsic self and our interconnectedness
with all things. In modern times, we know this ratio as one that
describes beauty, but when we look deeper, we find this same ratio
throughout nature, indeed, we find it throughout the universe. The
Golden Ratio is approximately 1.618. This formula describes the
proportions of a seahorse’s tail, the arc of a sea-shell, the petals of
flowers, of cacti and plants and ferns. Snail’s shells describe the
formula of 1.618 as do the spirals of the galaxy. The winds of a tornado
fit the numerical description of the Golden Ratio. From hurricane
spirals to human beauty, the ratio is the same. From your toes to your
navel, the distance is 1.618 times longer than your navel to the top of
your head. Fingers to wrist, wrist to elbow, the ratio is found
throughout and within everything that we know as normal. The closer
we come to this exact number, the closer we get to what we recognise as
beauty. This same formula is found in all things, from pineapples to
pine cones.
The Golden Ratio is also found within our DNA.
Everything in existence is energy and the result of vibrational
frequency. Ancient geometric patterns display the patterns of energy
flow and many patterns were created in proportions according to the
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Observe vibrational patterns on the surface of the liquid in your glass of
wine, as you listen to Beethoven and the chances are you will witness
patterns relating to the Golden Ratio. Energy manifests in what we
perceive as matter. The perception of reality in which we live, is
charged with a universal force, the architecture of which shows
throughout nature and the universe. This universal fingerprint is
within all of us and within all things.
When we label one thing, we label ourselves. Our external reality is a
mirror of our internal dialogue. Those among us who walk the way of
violence and fear based behaviours, display their inner uncertainty and
vulnerabilities. Many search for wealth and power because they have
no such internal resources.
As with all things, we are vibrational beings. The thought that creates
emotion is a vibration as is the resultant emotion. These thoughts and
emotions translate into a vibrationary pattern that resonates through
our body. Fear has a low energy pattern that oscillates with a long
wave. Love, the only other emotion that we actually experience, is a
high and short pattern of energy. All emotions derive from either love
or fear, which are the trees that bear forth the numerous branches of
emotions that we experience. An experience of anger, for example, is a
reaction to a fear based experience. The reaction may be instantaneous,
but its origin is clear. In a moment of happiness, what we really feel is
love.
When we experience repeated episodes of love or fear, our body
resonates to that frequency and we transmit those frequencies beyond
ourselves. In this way, we create our physical experience through
attracting similar vibrationary bodies. Like attract like. As our
vibrationary energy goes out and into our world, it begins to resonate
with similar vibrationary energies. Thought form and internal dialogue
create an outer experience that resonates with the inner frequencies,
set by those thoughts. What you give out and get back, is what you have
created.
It is possible to de-harmonise our body through persistent thought
patterns. The body has distinct vibrational patterns. For example the
natural resonance of the human abdomen occurs between eighteen and
twenty-five Hz. Critical resonant frequencies are between one and three
Hz. (25). The reverberating sounds of the human body are deep and
rhythmically harmonious, however illness causes, not only the
frequencies of specific organs to deteriorate, but the energy levels of the
whole body lose balance also. Organs function and our heart beats,
according to natural rhythms and frequencies, so that when we become
stressed, we affect those frequencies. Under stress our heart beats
faster as it attempts to regain its normal frequency.
Everything in the universe has frequency of vibration, which translates
to sound. Our planet, earth has a frequency called “The Schumann
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are one way that scientists hope to predict earthquakes and global
temperature variations. “In actuality, there are several frequencies
between 7 and 50 Hertz that compose the Schumann Resonances. These
frequencies start at 7.8 Hz and progress by approximately 5.9 Hz. (7.8,
13.7, 19.6, 25.5, 31.4, 37.3, and 43.2 Hz.). These resonances are NOT
composed of fixed or specific frequencies any more than the collective
mood of human surface consciousness is fixed. Changes occurring in
these frequencies are quite normal and do not indicate anything out of
the ordinary. All of these frequencies fluctuate around their nominal
values. For example, the fundamental Schumann frequency fluctuates
between 7.0 Hz. to 8.5 Hz. These frequencies vary from geological
location to location, and they can even have naturally occurring
interruptions.
The Schumann Resonances are the result of cosmic energy build-up
within the cavity that exists between Earth's highly conductive surface
and the conducting layer in the upper atmosphere called the
ionosphere. This creates a world-wide lightning display of broadband
electromagnetic impulses that fill this cavity and that act as the
stimulus for the cavity to resonate.” (31)
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Reality And Truth. Is There A Difference?

Everything real to us does not hold the same reality for anyone else and
cannot hold the same reality because each of us has created our own
unique canvas of the world. What happens to the child in Africa is
totally different to what happens to the child in Australia. Life
situations of people living in different social climates have a unique
variance, however, differences occur within the same climates also.
Siblings living under the same roof have their own unique experiences
upon which they build their realities. Our experience of the physical
world flows out from our inner psyche. We perceive outward events
through an inner feedback system in any instant, which alters our state
through governing our emotive response according to the information
selected in that feedback loop.

We have an inner world of thoughts and feelings, giving rise to mental

pictures, constructed through our predominant system of sensing of
psychic events that give rise to our materialised, physical reality. We
make sense of our world through the five physical senses of sight, touch,
smell, taste and hearing. One or more of these senses are dominant.
We are more likely to observe something in our world, if it is sensed by
our predominant sensing system. If our visual sense is more highly
developed than our other senses, we are more likely to see something
than hear, taste smell or feel during the experience of that same event.
We are more likely to see, during a physical experience and we depend
upon our hearing when experiencing a time related experience. Indeed,
time is a construct in and of itself, in order for us to understand events
from the past, proposed events and the experience that we are
currently having. Some philosophers have argued that for this reason,
time is an illusion, as that current experience from even a moment ago,
now has to be thought of as a past event.

At birth, the neuronal connections in the brain are immature and like
adult brains, the neuronal pathways require repeated activity to
develop. Such connection takes time and experience. Over time,
changes do occur, but such change is dependant upon experience. This
explains why siblings may have different, dominant sensory modalities.
One child may habitually use his sense of taste, while his sister is more
interested in how objects feel. The relevant connections need to be
rehearsed through repeated activity. Kittens, kept in a light deprived
existence for the first months of life, were found to have an under-
developed visual sense. (27). Our experiences in those first months of
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Different thoughts give rise to different feelings, which lead to a
different physical reality. Change one thing and everything else alters
to accommodate that change. What is real to you is possible to be
altered by you through the will of conscious thought and determination.
Change will always occur, however change that is beneficial becomes a
lottery without conscious determination.

The subconscious, which is not mind, but memory, is the true

experiencer of our life, although not the witness to our life. This is an
important observation. There is an observer, the real you, the real me
and this real me is not my body nor my brain and appears to be
completely separate to those things that have a physical reality, which
make up ‘me.’ Every fact, every action, picture and event is stored in
the subconscious. We use these experiences as references and from
such references we establish our belief system. Belief certainly arises
from experience, however there is a choice that exists in their selection.
All experience is recorded in subconscious memory and we have a
choice regarding which experience best represents our reality. Just as
there are but two basic emotions (love and fear), so there is only one
choice involved in our selection of the basis of our reality. That choice is
based on joy. Our very existence is based on this one premise that we
are here to experience joy and we do so to the best of our ability, without
creating a lack of joy, or impacting on others in a negative way. Every
choice that we make is affected by our past experience. We re-call past
experience that is now repeated or closely associated and that recalled
memory now forms a platform to launch future behaviour, which we
now recognise as belief. For example, if a child walks along the top of a
narrow brick wall and falls, he may try to repeat the exercise again
tomorrow. Should he fall again, he is on the way to forming a belief that
narrow brick walls cannot be traversed (although a young boy may
have to attempt this crossing more than just a few times for the
dangerous reality to sink in).
Belief is the guidance system for behaviour. This is where we determine
the least amount of pain or the greatest joy in a future action.
Subconscious memory allows us to evaluate the quality or level of joy in
that split second of decision. Memory is enacted through all past
experience. No one experience creates belief although such experience
will impact on the formation of belief. As with all things in life, beliefs
are made from a layering of events and experience. Things that happen
to us, things that we cause and have a result, things that are said to us,
overheard by us, judged by us, witnessed by us and discussed with
others, all go into the mix that we then evaluate them to be helpful in
the best way to bring us the most amount of joy in any given future
situation. This is how we form those behaviours that guide us to our
destiny.
Studies have concluded that people who have financial security in their
lives are individualist, materialist and believe in social capitalist
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in asset accumulation is what is needed to be successful, even if that is
not the case. It has been suggested (26) that certain social classes
within the capitalist system, impose on the poor a class-consciousness,
which is filled with unrealistic ideas of social mobility so that they do
not revolt. This would mean that the poorer classes have their beliefs
instilled wilfully and purposefully manipulated by others. We see this
attempt through repeated stories in the media where so-called public
opinion is manipulated when political advantage is at risk. Beliefs are
altered by direct interaction with others within society or our
observance of their behavioural consequences.
Differences in beliefs objectively reflect different realities. When we live
a certain lifestyle, experiencing the benefits of that lifestyle, we create,
in terms of probabilities, a likelihood of ongoing joy. Our beliefs are
therefore tailored to the experience of this lifestyle, whether it brings
positive or negative amounts of joy. Our beliefs are also fashioned
according to the groups or communities to where we belong. Most of us
take on the thought patterns and general beliefs of the group and of our
usual friends. Jim Rohn used to ask, “who are you around?” as one of
the most important questions we can ask.
Our beliefs shape our subsequent behaviours. We have a choice around
those behaviours, but usually, such choices regarding particular
behaviours are the result of introspection and all too often, choices are
reactionary rather than contemplative. This is something we need to
consider in this day and age of super fast consumerism. Few of us have
the time or the energy required to contemplate our next move, so we
tend to go along with the tide of past experience or pressure from our
peers. We take the path of least resistance. Reactive behaviours talk to
us about what it is that we recognise within ourselves.
Reactive behaviours often, do not serve us and it becomes beneficial to
address such circumstance. There is little doubt that an ‘automatic’
reaction, is a protective mechanism put in place through ego. When we
experience a reaction and bring our attention to it, we are in the initial
stages of transmutation from negative energy to positive. This allows
the ascension of energy through the energy centres of the body, of
which there are seven. We know these centres as chakras. They are the
junction points of energy meridians that run throughout our body. It is
important to note what our body is doing in these moments, rather than
concentrating on what is being said that may have triggered the
reaction within us. When you bring your conscious awareness to an
emotion, it dissipates.
Very often behaviours shaped by previous events, manifest themselves
as quirks or problems. We all know the person who has chronic illness
or every health issue that you’ve ever had, plus more – and worse! We
have all come across the person who has greater money issues, or more
money, or the one who is frantic about their life in general. As the
Chinese proverb says "A child's life is like a piece of paper on which
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Reaction to an experience adjusts our attitude to that experience and
such reaction is dependant upon our history and the input from others.
A mother, afraid of spiders and who screams when she sees a Huntsman
spider crawling near her baby, is likely to instil in that baby, the very
same fear, and according to the intensity of the mother’s reaction, so is
the level of instilled fear. The mother’s system of thought creates a
prisoner of her baby to that experience. And so it is with life. Each of us
becomes a prisoner along the way, to the thought processes of those
who may be significant in our life, at any particular moment.

In order to change the experience of our world, we need to change our

response to those experiences and thought processes. If we want to
increase our self-esteem and self-confidence, it would follow that
thoughts relating to experiences where we see ourselves as successful,
confident and creative need to be uppermost in our conscious mind.
Such thoughts will lead us to feelings of success. Feelings of great
confidence and feelings of creativity, and like the baby that feels its
mother’s fear of the spider, confidence, success and creativity are also
imprinted on our subconscious memory.
Self-esteem has its roots in a sense of belonging, allowing us the feeling
that we are a part of a larger construct or group. We have a basic need,
developed from deep within our gnome, to be loved and accepted. This
is something that, perhaps unknowingly, we strive for all of the time,
whether that is within the construct of our family, or the club that we
belong to or any group that we attend. In fact, it is probably the reason
or one of the reasons that we joined the club in the first place. People
have the urge to join gangs in order to fulfil the desire to belong. This
need is deep seated and one of the reasons people stay too long in a
position of work, long after their effective days are behind them.
Belonging gives rise to the desire to be appreciated.
An experience during our childhood may reflect upon our behaviour for
the rest of our life. As a child, we make no judgement around the events
that occur. They are, quite simply, events that just seem to happen
however, we do make judgements, no matter how noticeable or
seemingly insignificant, about those things that occur at the same time.
For example, a series of experiences that occur simultaneously will be
programmed into an immature mind as one event. A man leaning
toward a child, filling that child’s vision and at the exact moment a very
loud noise occurs. As the noise occurs, the man knocks the child’s
chair. The child is terrified at the noise, the movement and the sight of
a face fills her vision. All of these things are apparently related. The
child makes a judgement that when someone, specifically male, leans
toward her, then she will become frightened. This vision, those feelings
and that sound are all stored in subconscious memory for later recall
when the psyche requires verification of another, (unrelated but as far
as the subconscious memory is concerned, possibly linked) event.
It may be that this situation is never repeated, however the feelings are
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experience is similar to a current experience. Should this occur, those
same feelings, designed by the child’s mind, in the moment of fear at the
original event, will be recalled and re-experienced, even if that baby is
now fifty years old. The subconscious memory never forgets.
The new event does not have to match the establishing experience. An
instant of fear may surface in consciousness if a chair is knocked, or a
male fills her vision once more or a similar loud noise occurs. These
events do not have to occur together as the original occurred. The
subconscious will remind consciousness if enough evidence is provided
to even roughly match the original. The intensity of current feeling is
not necessarily the same, but the ghost of the original is presented in
proportion to the original experience. These feelings can be
extinguished through conscious awareness of their invalidity, but left
unobserved, they can dominate in certain, similar circumstances.
Whether we belong to a gang, a club or even if we simply enjoy our own
company, we have another deep-seated need and that is to gain a sense
of having our own identity. We need to have an awareness that we are
in some unique way, different from the rest, which leads to a sense of
pride in our unique differences from the flock. From these experiences
we gain a sense of being worthy of love and praise for simply being who
we are. The need to have a sense of identity really springs from the
second great and universal need of being loved. Identity is where we
find our unique and core values that support us in times of criticism and
rejection and provide us the strength to dream and to chase our dreams
that are unique to us. No one else can live life for us no one else has
access to our map of the world which exists because of the
cartographers of our existence to this point – those people, places and
events that have imprinted their experience in our subconscious
memory.
We need to feel that we have control over our actions and that our
actions, whether they be in thought, word or deed, are relevant and
reasonable to our experience. Much of this competency is developed
from the experiences of childhood, however all life’s wonders mould the
shape of our character. So not only are our feelings of self worth
developed from family and childhood, but from our extended family of
friends and acquaintances and everyone else with whom we interact.
The difficulty in modern times is that the modelling that people of my
generation and before, received from family, is not so relevant these
days. In modern society we often have children left alone for periods of
time, to receive their upbringing from the role models they see on
television and in the media. Not only children of course, the average
time spent in front of the television in most homes now exceeds ten
hours every day! Children are increasingly being subjected to violence
in the home, through the medium of entertainment, as well as those
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the kinds of behaviours that say violence is an acceptable part of life?
That violence is how we settle arguments. What core values are being
instilled? Where does the electronic generation get its belief of self-
control in such an uncertain and dangerous world? Some might call it
self-efficacy, but what we are talking about is a basic value that
contributes to self-esteem and that value is the belief and understanding
where we have a sense of control over our safety and in that same
understanding we have the ability to not only survive, but to succeed.
The success masters of our time, all tell us of the importance of
modelling. Napoleon Hill suggests that we dress in the style to which we
wish to become. In effect, we already see ourselves as being successful
and we anchor those feelings through the touch of our clothing and even
the smell of those “success” garments. If we cannot afford to dress this
way, then it is imperative that we anchor our feelings of success
through some activity that is out of the ordinary for us, but one that
represents to us a feeling of being successful, of being creative, of being
what we want to become. Through these changes we are able to take on
the persona of that character we wish to become. It is important to
identify the feelings that change for us and to anchor those feelings
through a particular physicality such as touch. For example, when you
identify a feeling or resource that is right for you, squeeze together a
thumb and forefinger for example (using the opposite hand to that
which you would normally use) and concentrate on the desired feeling.
In this way, you have an anchor to the resource that you want.
Jim Rohn’s question of “Who are you around?” is a query that echoes
throughout life as the actions of others fall upon our mind like pollen on
the wind. Our friends and acquaintances have an important imprint on
our outcomes. We all heard the old saying that it’s “hard to soar like an
eagle, when I’m constantly surrounded by turkeys.” There’s a great
deal of truth in the old sayings. Metaphors are powerful and have
tremendous influence on our life. In that instant when things go wrong,
do you berate yourself? Do you say things like “I’m stupid for doing
that?” or “I hate it when I do that.” Or “Why do I keep making these
same mistakes?” You know that you’re not stupid. If you were, then
you would probably be incarcerated somewhere. You don’t hate
yourself or you would, more than likely commit self-harm and the only
reason you may make the same mistakes, is because you tell your self
that, that is exactly what you do, because you’re not asking a reasonable
quality question. Would the outcome change, do you think, if you asked,
“What would happen if I did this differently?” or “How could I make this
better?”
So what do you say when you are around your friends and
acquaintances? How does the patter of talk go? Do you talk about those
things that are uplifting, or do you talk about everyone’s ill health. How
great the world is or how bad things are going in the economy? What do
you talk about? What do you do? Do your friends leave you with a
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outcome of our life. Your income is probably about the average of the
five people with whom you are mostly in contact with. What does that
mean for you? Are you contented with your income? Are your finances
suitable for the lifestyle that you wish to achieve? The people who you
are around are a good gauge as to your current position in life.
Life is like a bus and we are the driver. Along the route of or life, we
pick up passengers. Some stay, some leave. All of those passengers
influence the direction of our bus. Sometimes we have to say “enough is
enough” and we have to put some passengers off our bus. Perhaps they
simply have to move to the back, so that we don’t have to interact with
them on such a regular basis, but those few…. those few who influence
our control simply have to put off. It’s possible to just “sin-bin” some
people and metaphorically say “I’ll be back and pick you up later,” but
some people have to put off our bus and that is that. The choice is
yours.
In the attempt to attract attractive people into our life, we have to be
attractive to them. Remember the bus, because they are driving one too
and if we want to be picked up, we have to be a representation of being a
reasonable passenger in their life. We have to become attractive and we
achieve such attractiveness through growth. We achieve attractiveness
through the development of our character and self-esteem, our integrity
and truthfulness. Our character is the glue that secures us to the top of
the pile. An attractive personality does not develop of its own accord.
Firstly, you must desire it through living the thoughts, feelings and
actions of the personality you wish to become. It is my belief that
feelings are the most important side to our personality in all matters.
We must feel, with authenticity, the desired outcome in order to achieve
that outcome, no matter what it may be. We need to mentally
experience the outcome as a heartfelt belief or resolve, that creates an
image, whether that is dominated by vision, sound, colour or simply a
“word picture” - as such references will be dependant upon the filtering
lens of reality (where we perceive our reality through visual, sound,
feelings or hearing). Such mental pictures, when held in great detail
and as vivid as is possible for us to behold, make it virtually impossible
to hold an opposite belief and as such to create un-helpful habits. It is
important to focus on the outcome only and to not concern ourselves
with the “how” of achieving it. If we concentrate on both the outcome
and the mechanics of the achievement, we will get caught in the detail
and create only confusion. Leave the detail to the Universe, or to God,
or Spirit as the power that is beyond us, and that permeates all things,
and simply concentrate on what you want without thought as to the
improbability of the prospect.
A graphic resolve allows us to have faith and confidence in the outcome
and gives our mental image substance, and substance creates motive,
and motive, creates the direction of our life’s purpose, but it is only in
gaining an understanding of our magnificence that we can actually
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The ancient indigenous cultures knew this wisdom and their prayers
reflected that understanding. Those cultures did not pray for an
outcome as we might pray. Modern faiths tend to pray to their God
while asking for a result to their prayer. We ask for the rains to come in
times of drought – we ask… Indigenous cultures (generally) give thanks
for their gifts as if they already experience them. Those who pray in
those cultures, feel the rain on their faces, feel the wetness dripping
down their body and feel the mud, as if it were already there, between
their toes. In this manner, they give thanks for gifts already received
through feeling the results of those gifts. Feelings are the key to success
in everything. They manifest, as if already manifested. Manifestation
occurs when we are in that place of universal spirit through an
understanding that we are not only a part of the universe, but that the
universe is actually, a part of us and that we bring into our life, those
things that are actually ours by right. When those truly amazing
manifestational happenings occur, they do so because you are at one
with spirit and you know that they are truly yours and you simply allow
them to come in. Its not about pursuing, because the minute we pursue
we acknowledge the object of our desire is not really ours in the first
place. When we become centred, everything that should be in our life
comes to us effortlessly. We simply have to allow it to happen. When we
create the thought that we, and the universe, are integral we can see
that without being the best that we can be, actually makes the universe
less than it could be. We complete the common purpose, by achieving
our true magnificence.
We are the only limitation to our success. We limit our successes by
going along with our beliefs in an unquestioning way. As Socrates said
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Manifestation & The Law Of Resonance

Nothing is ever caused by one event. There is always input from several
different factors that ‘cause’ something to happen. A traffic accident
does not just happen as there are underlying factors such as speed, or
tiredness, inattention or mechanical failure due to a part not being
replaced. Nothing ‘just happens’ and so it is with life. We aren’t just
suddenly in the midst of a relationship melt-down without warning. The
signs are always there. Jack Canfield calls them ‘yellow alerts.’ (28). In
Canfield’s “Success Principles,” he describes the importance of not being
a victim. We ignore the clues that things are happening or about to
happen that aren’t going to work in our favour, like the receptionist who
‘suddenly’ quits even though she has been talking about wanting to join
her boyfriend in the Bahamas for weeks before hand. Like the husband,
who comes home with lipstick on his collar, every night.
Success, no matter how you frame it, rarely occurs because of one thing
only. Success requires planning. The Law Of Attraction, proposed by
James Allen in ‘Think And Grow Rich’ provides a good grounding for
attracting those things into life, that we truly want. There is little doubt
that if we truly want something to come into our life, then desire is
required, rather than wishing. I have personally witnessed numerous
‘miracle’ cures in my time of working with people who have the
experience of cancer. People who ‘desire’ to get well and work to that
end with a single-minded determination, sometimes do achieve what
some describe as spontaneous remission. Many do not. Over the years I
have had cause to ask why so few obtain that heartfelt desire to survive.
What is the difference, between survivors and those who pass before,
what might have been reasonable to assume as ‘their time’? No doubt
physiology and the aetiology of the disease and nutrition and ongoing
medical support must be factors, but assuming these responses to be
similar, why do some people live longer than others, when all want to
live? Holding on to life is the most basic instinct of all, more basic even,
than the desire to procreate.
Desire is different to wishing. Desire is a state of mind that causes a
person to not only feel, but also to act in certain ways. Desire causes the
person to act because of their mental disposition to do so. Through their
desire, they make a judgement regarding the outcome and create a
belief that such an outcome is possible, indeed, probable. They become
pro-active in the determination of their outcome. Certain philosophers
would argue that a desire is merely a wish if the outcome is generally
deemed impossible, however I believe that anything is possible within
the infinite field of conscious possibilities that surround us. Of course,
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the possibility of an early death, it is a deliberate choice to follow a path
based on desire, rather than wishing all the ‘bad’ away. To be proactive
at a time when so much energy is required to follow protocols and to
understand advice, indeed, to sort through so much advice, is difficult
and many people slip into the relative comfort of victimhood and from
that perspective, they wish for better health. To hold desire requires
effort and is a requirement for manifestation.
As we discussed earlier, everything in the Universe vibrates at its own
unique frequency. Frequencies of similar bodies are said to be in
resonance when those frequencies are of the same vibration. The
quantum state of a particle has a wave function in a probability
amplitude. That is, it is probable that a given wave function will behave
in a given way. A probability amplitude is a way of saying that there is a
probability of something happening within a range of probabilities.
Quantum particles behave as a wave function, similarly to the waves on
a pond and they do so in space and time. They are a part of the
space/time continuum. I mention these things, in order to take the
‘jargon’ out of what is really a basic discussion of what is likely to occur
as a result of our thought processes. Everything has a frequency and
therefore everything vibrates at some quantum level.
In the early part of the twentieth century, doctor Royal Rife realised
that the human body frequencies were compromised by illness and
disease. Rife also realised, through decades of investigation, that
disease had its own set of vibrations throughout that disease’s life cycle.
Rife subscribed to the view that the life form of a pathogen, alters as the
pathogen invades its host. Rife discovered a way to cause these
pathogenic frequencies to be silenced within a sonic resonant range. He
called this technology M.O.R. or Mortal Oscillatory Resonance. He
reasoned that if a pathogen or virus’s frequency could be altered, then,
like all things, that pathogen could be killed. Rife invented a microscope
called the Universal Microscope through which he was able to study live
micro-organisms, something that had been impossible to that time and
he was able to observe these invading organisms changing and
disintegrating as he applied resonance from his M.O.R. In clinical trials,
supervised by pathologists and physicians from USC’s medical school,
Rife was able to cure fourteen out of sixteen terminally ill cancer
patients, within seventy days of frequency treatment. The remaining
two cancer patients took another twenty days to be declared clinically
cured of their cancer.
The story of Roy Rife is one of lost opportunity. He was an individual of
amazing talent. Rife found a way to cure disease and in particular, he
discovered a way to cure cancer. Such a cure did not sit well with
certain factions within the medical community. Rife had discovered a
way to destroy pathogens, bacteria and many viruses without side
effects. He had found a way to eliminate the cellular environment of
cancer and because of this, his invention threatened the very existence
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When he finished his medical training in the United States, Rife joined
the Carl Zeis Optical Company in Germany and it was here that he
invented the Universal Microscope, acknowledged within the scientific
community as a modern marvel. It was this microscope that enabled
scientists to observe living microorganisms. In this way, scientists were
able to observe the effects of resonant frequencies on the pathogenic life
cycle. Rife demonstrated in clinical trials, his ability to kill, not only
cancer, but also most diseases, without the use of drugs. Naturally the
Pharma drug industry reacted and through the head of the AMA,
Morris Fishbein, Rife was attacked through the courts. Rife’s partner,
Doctor Millbank Johnson, was murdered in 1944, immediately prior to
presenting a paper in Rife’s defence. Another partner was reported to
have committed suicide and the wife of another colleague was
committed to an institution where she was treated with electric shock
for two months. After being repeatedly attacked through the use of
arson, murder, theft and finally the death of his wife of thirty years, Rife
retired to Mexico in 1961, where he died at the age of eighty three.
The story of Royal Rife’s life and work were told in detail by Barry
Lynes in his work, “The cancer Cure That Worked: 50 Years Of
Suppression.” This work was submitted to every member of the
American Congress and the staff and students of George Washington
University’s medical school, in an effort to have an investigation of
Rife’s work without bias. (29)
No one replied.
Resonance works on the principle that like attracts like, but there is an
interesting concept called entrainment, which I believe affects every
person and every ‘thing’ that resonates, within the universe. Christian
Huygens was a Dutch physicist and mathematician who lived in the
seventeenth century. Huygens was one of the first to state that light
consisted of waves, the discovery of Titan and the development of
calculus. Huygens was a very clever individual, but for our purposes,
his inventiveness is important because of his invention of the pendulum
clock. In 1666, Huygens noticed that the pendulums of clocks, mounted
on a common board, synchronised their pendulums over a period of
time. The pendulum that swung faster, slowed and the slow pendulum,
quickened its pace to match its mate. Huygens described this effect as
‘odd sympathy.’ Similar effects can be detected in your piano, strike a
key and the strings in the other octaves begin to vibrate in sympathy.
As we alter our vibrational frequency through the implication of our
emotions, we begin to resonate with the similar frequencies of other
beings. This is only one reason that we feel sympathy and one of the
underlying structures of empathy and kinship. We resonate with our
fellow beings. When people around us are happy, vibrant and bubby, we
cannot help ourselves in feeling a shift in our own emotional state. We
may not get to bright, bubbly and vibrant, however we definitely shift
our own level of emotional response in a natural endeavour to resonate.
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a matter of balance.
Many of us are dominant in one sense above the other four senses. The
resultant imbalance of the senses creates an out of balance, lower
vibrational frequency within our body. In 1985, it was reported that
twenty pre-term babies, averaging a gestation period of thirty-one
weeks, received body stroking and passive movement of their limbs,
during transitional nursery care. This extra touching was applied to
the babies for a period of fifteen minutes each day for a period of only
ten days. They gained forty seven percent more weight than babies who
were not touched in this way. They became more alert matured quicker
and had better motor skills that the babies who were not a part of the
trial. (30). Simple touch even for such a short period of time, has
profound effects on our mental and physical wellbeing. When even one
of our senses is under used, our bodily frequency is affected.
We are attracted through resonance, to many things, usually through
our subconscious recognition of beauty in the referred object of our
mutual resonance. The golden ratio is embedded into our genome and
its recognition is a factor at our very core. We instinctively recognise
beauty in another person and in that moment of recognition, are
attracted. Such attraction may immediately be nullified by
innumerable other factors, but in that instant of recognition, we
experience the recognition of beauty. Many world famous film stars,
imitate the golden ratio in their looks. Some faces have been carefully
crafted, but never the less, such craftsmanship approaches the golden
ratio in most respects.
Attraction is more than just the subliminal recognition of the embedded
ratio. Physical beauty also triggers the basic desire to find a mate, no
matter the observer’s age, the genetic propensity to reproduce is one of
the basic instincts. Such sexual attraction may cause only the most
cursory glance, but it is at the core of our being. We look at the opposite
sex with fertility in mind. Some argue that the curves of a woman’s
body recall the fertility of the egg and this is just one aspect of male to
female attraction. Symmetry is a feature in the initial stages and its all
down to the golden ratio. These explanations are not complete in their
hypothesis, but they play a role in the instinctive attraction that must
occur between the sexes in order that human kind continues its
reproductive journey. The golden ratio in a human face incorporates all
aspects of the face from the width of the nose, to the width of the mouth.
The hairline to the tip of the nose and the distance of the nose to the
chin, all coordinate our genetic attraction to physical beauty.
While physical beauty accounts for sexual attraction, we also
experience a subconscious attraction to those who we feel are
attractive. This experience of attraction is, at times, beyond our ability
to explain, however we usually know instantly when we like another
person. This is a time when we are in resonance with that person. This
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kinship. It is a case of having similar vibrational frequencies gained
through the accumulation of many aspects of life, which may include
experience, thinking patterns, emotional balance, interests, speech and
even tonality. Remember the strings on your piano, when middle C is
struck, the same note in the different chords and octaves also vibrate in
resonance. People do not have to be exactly the same to resonate with
each other, the simply strike accord. There are other factors involved
in attraction, such as recognition of spirit, which I discussed in “Spirit &
The Theory Of Radiant Consciousness”, however I’m speaking here only
of resonance.
When we are in a resonant relationship we do not necessarily have to
communicate verbally to ‘hear’ what the other says. The closer we are
to resonance with someone, the more likely we will be to know what the
other is trying to communicate. Such communication goes beyond
words. This is similar to the entrainment of tuning forks, which are
used in the tuning of musical instruments. When a tuning fork of one
pitch is struck, others of the same tone or pitch, in the vicinity of the
original, begin to vibrate. Forks of a different pitch do not resonate. It
is possible to resonate with another’s thoughts and not their being.
Similar thoughts and patterns of thoughts have specific frequencies,
which make it possible to know what the other person is trying to
communicate, or currently thinking. This is not entirely down to
‘reading’ the other’s mind as much as being attuned to your own senses,
because quite often we smell the other’s thoughts as well as spying
visual clues.
Every thought, which is a fluctuation at the quantum level of an
electrical charge in our brain, creates a response in our body. Candice
Pert discovered that every thought creates a molecule – the molecule of
thought and a chemical reaction within our body. Specific thoughts and
emotions produce pheromones. The word pheromone is derived from
the two root words of phero, meaning ‘to bear’ and hormone, which in
turn, is derived from the Greek word ‘impetus.’ A pheromone is a
chemical factor, which produces a social response and specific
physiological behaviours. This is how many species communicate.
Including the human species. Human beings are no longer in touch with
their five physical senses as we may have once been. Now we rely on
fewer senses in every day life. Our senses of sight, taste and hearing
have taken precedence over those of kinaesthetic and olfactory in our
modern society. We no longer have to use the sense of smell to find our
food. Looking at a menu is much easier.
In certain social situations, these under-used and perhaps, under-
valued senses come to our aid. It is possible for instance, to ‘smell
danger.’ Predatory behaviour displays a specific aroma that we
instinctively notice if we are attuned to our senses. This is an ancient
warning system that triggers the flight, freeze, fight, response. Even
plants have this response to the grazing of herbivores and some species
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may all be familiar with is that which is indicated prior to sex. Human
beings produce steroids, androstenone, androstenol and
androstandienone. It is thought that the reason women’s menstrual
cycles become synchronised, is through olfactory cues. Most species
produce a pheromone to attract a mate, the production of which
heightens sexual arousal, which may be experienced in several different
ways, from odour cues to the sense of touch. Resonating with a
potential mate can rely on more than being in sync with their thoughts.
We have an innate sense to understand someone’s intent, through our
genetic ability to read body language and facial expressions. The ability
to distinguish genuine emotion from false and even those who may be
contemplating suicide as an option in their depression, is possible. In
his 1970’s paper ‘Psychophysiology’ Paul Ekman, professor of
psychology at the University of California, School of Medicine, described
more than forty facial expressions that tell the story of our thoughts,
written unconsciously on the face. Since that time, even more studies
have revealed an intricate network of facial variables that describe our
inner-most thoughts and feelings. These facial reactions are
unconscious movements over which most people have no control, they
describe our true nature and reveal whether we are telling the truth or
a lie, anger or joy, fear or aggression. True emotions are expressed on
our face in less than one quarter of a second, before being covered by
another, false emotion. This quarter of a second flash is our moment of
truth and one with which the observer unconsciously recognises or
dismisses.
Often we mistake a genuine smile for one that is false, which does not
communicate a person’s true intent. A genuine smile is triggered
through the unconscious and reactive part of our brain that causes the
major muscles in our cheeks to contract and so, are an automatic
reaction. A fake smile uses a different muscle group, controlled by a
different part of our brain and so the resultant expression displayed on
our face is different to the genuine smile. A genuine smile is the end
process of an emotive reaction causing the mouth to move, cheeks to
rise and the eyes to crinkle at the corners. In a genuine smile, the
eyebrows dip slightly and this rarely happens with a false smile. This
dip of the brow in a genuine smile is caused by the fleshy part of the
eyelid moving downwards.
Facial expressions are not limited to muscle reaction and can include
the rate of eye movements that relate to stress. Eye contact can display
the level of confidence or interest and the dilation of pupils may relate
to excitement. These are clues to a person’s feelings and the emotions
they are experiencing in the moment, however it is best to remember
that like all body language, these eye movements and facial expressions
are only indicators of what may be happening. Voice pitch and tone, the
speed of speech and the degree of clarity and volume all lead us to an
understanding of what may be the underlying emotions. It is the whole
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that finally contribute to our communication.
When we resonate with another person, we unconsciously mirror their
body language. We copy their posture, hand gestures, vocal tone and
even their breathing patterns. Some sales people, who are expert at
building rapport, create a mirroring situation through this copying
technique. It is a way of building trust and reinforcing communication,
but it is a natural consequence of resonance and is often a subconscious
reaction in romantic situations. We take notice of all aspects of the
people with whom we interact, from their facial expressions to the state
and shape of their body. We watch for people’s facial reactions as an
intuitive response to our communication with them, but even before we
get to the point of talking, we have looked at and judged their face as to
a probable response. This sets the tone for our opening statement and is
an unconscious self-indicator as to whether we will continue with
building this particular relationship. We make judgements (even those
of us who profess to being non-judgemental) based on body shape, facial
response, and even face maps, which indicate through creases in the
skin whether this person is going to be friendly or not, judgemental
(even though we are doing the same thing in that moment) angry or
sad. We make these judgements in an instant, even before a single word
is said.
Much of what we do occurs at a subconscious level. This means that we
already know what to do and how to behave, because our subconscious
is not mind. The subconscious is not separate from us in some
mysterious way and a ‘thing’ that manifests for us, as some would
indicate. The subconscious is simply stored memory of all events and
actions that have occurred throughout our life. When called upon, the
stored memory responds and is linked to an appropriate emotion that is
then followed by an action. Our subconscious also has the benefit of the
genetic imprint of our archetypal characters. What we refer to as
subconscious is memory that is stored throughout the body and in every
cell of the body and as such becomes an intrinsic part of our cellular
DNA. When we require recall, it is the appropriate memory that is
recalled, which is then fulfilled through emotion and action.
While in our mother’s womb, we experienced life through her eyes and
her reactions to the world. Our mother’s emotions were our emotions.
Her fears were ours and her joy gave us comfort and the experience of
safety. While in her womb, we had the experience of sound as one of our
very first experiences in this life. We heard what our mother heard, the
conversations and the laughter, the music and the sounds of her voice
as she spoke to us. This was our first experience of life, months before
our birth. But for some babies, their first experience is fear and anger.

The ripple effect of fear and anger, stored in the subconscious memory
of the pre-born baby, continues throughout life. A child may grow with
an understanding that the world is not safe, that they are not good
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come from the birth experience or from episodic events while in the
womb. Erik Erikson believed that trust was a building block of
personality and that if trust were found to be lacking, then the child’s
personality grew in the misshapen belief that all was not safe and that
the world could not be trusted. A baby, who experiences being
unwanted by its mother, may later experience this emotional jolt as a
blockage to emotional growth. The intellect assigns meaning to the
emotional reaction and at some point in life, that meaning is explained
in the child’s (and into adulthood) actions. They make sense of their
world through making that world fit to their view, in order to create the
sense of safety that we all crave at the most basic and genetic level.
Fear of abandonment is common where fear has been experienced as
one of the first of life’s experiences.
Just as a foetus has the ability to hear its mother’s voice and be soothed
by beautiful music, so it has the ability to be afraid of violence. The pre-
born baby experiences the emotions of his or her mother through their
chemical connection. The experience of angry energy may contribute to
the child’s experience of the world as an unsafe and unloving place.
Issues of around emotional safety, fear, abandonment and betrayal may
follow the child into adulthood. Anxiousness and low self-esteem have
their roots in early childhood experiences. Boys learn to abuse and girls
learn to accept and expect abuse. In an early environment of violence,
these children do not have good role models for close relationships and
communication. They have no knowledge of conflict resolution. Many
children who experience violence and emotional abandonment in their
early years join gangs, because it is in the gang environment that they
have the experience of tradition and ritual that has slipped from their
grasp in their home life. These people may experience depression and
become expert at self-abuse. They build an affinity for alcohol, drugs
and food and use money as their foremost goal. Many children of
violence become violent and lonely people and are often times, ‘out of
control,’ because that is the experience of their parents. These children
resonate with people who have similar experiences and thought
patterns. Violence begets violence.
We bring into our life, those people, places, things and events with
which we resonate and we do that through raising or lowering our
personal frequencies controlled by our associations, our eating habits,
our health and physical and spiritual fitness and our thoughts. The law
Of Attraction taught that you will receive that which you believe is
possible for you, however it is too simple to hold the belief that I can
have what I want if I think about it all of the time. The Law of
Resonance does not disagree that we need to hold our vision at the
forefront of our mind, however to receive, as we have seen from the
previous examples, we need to be in resonance and to obtain a state of
resonance, we are required to have a clear vision, to understand the
energy level of that which we desire to attract and to have the ability to
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have whatever we want, if it exists within the universe now. This is
particularly relevant and understandable when we conclude and hold
that conclusion, as truth, that we have the universe within us in
holographic form. Belief is a cofactor of resonance.
There is no doubt that we will attract that, which resonates with us.
Recall that many factors effect our energy levels and those levels begin
with our thoughts. It makes sense then, to hold the vision of our goal
and to frame that goal with all of our senses. One of the best ways I have
found to create such insight is through the use of vision boards. About
twenty years ago, I was able to experience a moment of clarity around
an issue that had plagued me for most of my adult life. I had been stuck
in an underlying belief, based in abandonment, since childhood. At the
time, I did not realise the belief arose in childhood, nor did I realise that
the issue was grounded in abandonment.
This belief was the underlying factor in the breakdown of relationships
and had immersed me in misery at specific times. Eventually I
determined that enough was enough. I was fortunate to have
befriended (resonated with) a great teacher who came into my life at
that time and introduced me to vision boards. Over a period of three
days, I meditated on my problem and the symptoms and the result that
I wanted. I was well aware of the symptoms, but had no idea of the
cause or what the problem actually was. All I knew was that at certain
times of the year, I experienced extreme loneliness that crippled my
ability to communicate or even to express my depression, no matter
what company I kept. The day that I created my board, I felt somehow
lighter. It was as if I had articulated the problem, even though I had
used no words.
I remember the day the clarity came. I was driving along a freeway. I
was in that state of no mind; attending to my driving but paying no
particular attention to anything. Suddenly I experienced a realisation.
I knew without doubt that this was the solution to the riddle of my
depression. I knew the reason, where it came from and who was
involved in its formation. I knew without doubt that it stemmed from
my years of boarding school. I had a vivid vision of my parents walking
from me as I sat on the steps of my dormitory, which was my new home,
as a nine-year old lad. In that moment of childhood, I felt lost and
abandoned and my world was suddenly crushed. Even today, I can see
quite clearly, the backs of my parents as they leave. I have no doubt
that they too, were crushed, but we never spoke of it in their lifetimes.
In my mid teens, I experienced my first romantic love. For some years
we were inseparable, but eventually we made different lives. Little did I
realise that she had come to represent the family I had emotionally lost
so many years before. Not until I did my vision board. In the moment of
realisation, I felt a weight lift. I was euphoric. I was overcome with a
joy that I had not experienced in adult life. I pulled over and sobbed
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realisation with someone, so I phoned my sister who lived thousands of
kilometres away.
“I know what has been wrong all these years.” I told her in a non-
coherent babble of excitement. “I know what has caused those times of
loneliness and depression...” And I proceeded to tell her about my
amazing feelings of gratitude and wholeness, of how the entire world
looked different to me now and about how light I felt.
She thought I was crazy. ‘Yeah, that’s great.” she said. “What else is
news?”
Sometimes its best to keep your insights to yourself.
Before we discuss the possibilities of manifestation through the use of a
vision board, I would like to mention one more ‘law’ and that is the law
of dharma. Dharma recognises that each of us has unique talents and
unique ways in which we are able to express those talents. For each of
our unique talents we also have unique needs and ways in which to
express the talents inherent within us. Recognition of the talents we
have and discovering the ways in which to express them, will bring to
us the abundance we seek. The round peg fits the round hole perfectly.
I would urge you to know your unique gifts and needs and think
carefully how to nurture them for this is the way in which you will
create the abundance you seek. The true gifts each of us has are gifts
that serve humanity. Too often we concentrate on the gifts that serve
only us and wonder why when we develop those talents, we do not find
the peace and fulfilment we thought would be created in that
development. When we desire to serve, we find true fulfilment. This is
the law of dharma. Keep it in mind when you think about creating your
vision board and in that way, you will find the abundance you seek.
Your vision board uses basic materials; I use an A3 card as the board.
The slight stiffness of the card allows for a solid construction when
complete which ensures a reasonable longevity, which, for me, is
important. While the colour of the board is a personal choice, it might
be relevant to ponder the chakra colours and choose the colour with
which you resonate at the time. Think about what it is that you wish to
bring into your life and relate that vision to the power junctions within
your body. Each junction, or chakra, relates to specific, inner power.
This is not just modern whiz-bang presumption, the inter-sections of
personal power at those points we know as chakras, have been known
for centuries. They are real just as much as any place or organ within
us. Meditate on the power that you wish to enhance within you and
relate that power to one or more chakras so that the answer comes from
deep within your psyche.
The root chakra colour is red. This chakra is that which holds our
concern with creation, shelter and security. It is the place where we
experience our physical and emotional birth. This is the place of our
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of our physical-ness, the place where we become aware of our bodies. If
your goal is to create a new body shape, this may be the colour board for
you.
The third chakra is yellow and is located in the area of the solar plexus.
This is the place of perception. Remember that our reality is created
through our perception. When we have a ‘gut feeling’ about things its
always best to follow them. This is the place of self-issues and self
esteem. It is the place of our centred-ness.
The fourth chakra is green and is our heart chakra. To strengthen your
heart, use this colour. This is the fulcrum chakra that holds the others
in balance. The place of awareness and love and our cue to be in step
with life
The throat chakra is blue. This is where we communicate and express
our dreams. Blue is the colour of the sea that covers most of our planet
and holds the places where everyone wants to be. This is the place of
connection in the body and from where we announce our discoveries.
This is where you will find and express your solutions.
The sixth chakra. Third eye. Indigo. Our connection to all energy and
where we experience knowledge and awareness. This is the power
source for all inner discoveries.
The crown chakra is violet. This is the place of our energy connection to
the universe and all possibility. Everything is possible and this is our
connection to those possibilities.
The first step in creating an effective vision board is to meditate on your
goals. You know that it is important to hold a vision for what it is that
you want to manifest. It is important to create a resonance and just like
the contemplation of any important decision in your life, we need time
to reflect. I meditate on what I want to attract and I do it in a specific
room in our home. Set the meditative mood and pay attention to
lighting, heating or cooling. Ensure that you will not be disturbed. You
might wish to place candles of incense, perhaps an oil burner with
frankincense or similar relaxing oil. Prior to meditating, take five or
ten minutes to reflect on your goals. Involve as many senses as possible
in your thought construction of these goals. What does it look like?
Smell like? If your goal is to travel, where will you go and what will be
the sounds there? How will the temperature impact on you? What dos
it feel like. Create the vision in your mind, as if you are there and feel
the gratitude. Feel the wind, the rain, the hat or cold. Listen carefully
and hear the sounds associated with your goal, as if these were the very
first sounds of your life. Imagine how wondrous they are! Imagine
what you can taste in this moment. Leave no sense out of your picture.
Now notice the colours. Make the colours even more vivid, the sounds
louder, the taste stronger and really feel what it is like. Intensify your
vision. Do this for about five or ten minutes, while being completely
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Now drift into a meditation and allow yourself to remain here for about
half an hour. This is the beginning of your manifestation.
Allow yourself to complete your day in whatever way you wish. Do
ordinary things, but hold the memory of your vision in your mind.
Tomorrow, you are going to construct the blueprint for your dreams.
The construction of the vision board is comprised of pictures, chosen by
you and those that hold resonance with you, for no other reason than
you really like them. Choose pictures that are true to your culture or
true to what you want in your life. Don’t look for pictures with a
conscious mind. I prefer to choose pictures from the magazines I read
regularly and I take about a dozen or more into my meditation room,
spread them around me on the floor and concentrating on what you
want to manifest, flick through them. Choose pictures that represent
what you want. These pictures don’t have to be exactly what you want,
just a representation. Don’t worry, if you want a red Ferrari and can
only find a yellow Maserati – worry will lower your energy levels and
right now, in this moment, those levels need to be high. Make certain
that your choice of pictures resonates with you and that you choose
those that represent your dreams.
You will have a pile of pictures now and before you commence to attach
glue them to your board you need to relax. This needs to be close to
another meditative state. Very relaxed. Not thinking. There is no right
or wrong about this. You cannot fail at this. Whatever you do, will be
okay. Just relax and start gluing.
I want to attend a writing workshop in Spain next year, so on my vision
board, I shall place in big letters across the top ‘Fantastic Spain’ and the
words ‘World’s Best Writer.’ Even though you have a vision board, you
still have to take responsibility as the co-creator.
The most difficult step is this one. It is the final physical step in the
manifestation of your desires. Now that you have created your vision
board it is normal that you experience an inner connection to it. It is
not unusual for you to want to keep it in your possession at all times. I
believe that one reason for this is that it represents your innermost
wishes. Your vision board holds, in physical evidence, the possibility of
future. It is only natural, if you have followed the steps and created
your board from your heart space, that you hold such an affinity for it.
Some popularist authors advocate the destruction of the vision board at
this time. I do not. The theory is that in destroying it, we are leaving
the remaining aspects of manifestation up to the universe. Through
maintaining connection with the board, these people suggest that it’s a
little like an annoying salesman who won’t leave you alone and it
confuses the universal energies. It is true that it is not helpful to
further instruct the universe on how to manifest our desired outcomes.
When you think about it that would be a silly thing to do. Why would we,
when we don’t know how to manifest what we want, then instruct the
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maintain contact with your dreams. In my opinion, if you place the
board where you see it, last thing at night and first thing in the morning,
then your thoughts are channelled through the meditative state that we
enter and from which we emerge, every time we sleep. This allows our
subconscious to work on the desire to manifest and it is through the
meditative state that we are able to participate within the universal
field of consciousness. It is this field of infinite possibilities where future
is created. You must be present with your requests. This isn’t magic,
this is simply creating our heartfelt desire in an orderly and creative
way. Every successful person on the planet first held an idea of what
their success would look like.
When we ask the universe for what we want and then tell that power,
how to manifest our desire, it’s rude and makes no sense, after all, if we
knew how to bring it into our life in the first place, why did we have to
ask for it? Forget the detail. Let the universe worry about that. Just
hold the vision and prepare yourself for its arrival.
Live as if it is already here. Resonate with it as if you already have it
within your grasp.
Many years ago, I had the good fortune to have a teacher and mentor by
the name of Bill Giles. Bill is a very talented scientist in the field of
microbiology and founded the National Institute of Biological Medicine.
Giles developed a similar concept to the vision board, which he simply
called ‘the collage.’ (32). The collage was constructed in the same
manner I have just described for the vision board, except that it is used
to obtain clarity around a psychological problem, the answer to which is
elusive. It is not used to manifest physical outcomes, rather
psychological understanding. The collage is a therapist’s tool and the
discovery that Bill made was that in the construction of the board or
collage and placement of the various pictures and words, actually
follows a distinct psychological pattern, which is possible for a trained
therapist to follow and then assist the client to articulate what is buried
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 Chapter nine

The Creation Of Change & Subconscious Memory

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”

Lao Tzu

Our experience of being is not only constructed of our thoughts, but also
our feelings. Our feelings and emotions do not always commit to the
background of our life and at times we become overwhelmed by their
centrality. This sense of overwhelm comes to us without an
understanding of being driven by our emotional state. It comes through
being consciously unaware of what drives our behaviours. Overwhelm
soaks into our psyche like midnight’s tide. It is possible, without such
conscious understanding, of experiencing a bottomless pit regarding the
unreality of life. It is likely in such circumstance of the creation over
time, of an awareness of an elusive internal power, only experienced in
dreams. Those of us, who live life unaware of a locus of internal control,
usually have a sense of unease regarding the influence of a power or
powers over which there appears to be no control. In this way, the
biological becomes the social through the interaction of past events,
controlling the present with probable impact on the future. Life often
repeats.
The complex reactions of past present and future interact not only on a
personal level but, within our relationships and all social activities.
There is a biographical narrative to each of us. We all have a story and
those stories begin with childhood. Indeed, as we have previously
discussed, they begin even before childhood. The development of
psychoanalysis one hundred years ago, led to the understanding that
our story of life, is in fact, a life long story. The biographical flow of life
ensures that history repeats within us and throughout our social lives
unless we create awareness and a desire to change.
This great mystery of life appears to be profound for many who are not
able to come to the understanding that the past is only an influence and
does not have to remain as the driving force of behaviour. The infinite
realm of possibilities, that came together to form our existence, are
believed by some to be act of choice on the part of our soul. We choose
our parents and the body we inhabit these people tell us, in order for us
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agrees. “The coming into being of each of us and the particular person
we are hangs on an infinite chain of chance events .” (33) In her book,
written after a near death experience, Betty Eadie suggests that life is
like a river and the method of journeying is up to us (34) “A bad
beginning,” she suggests, “does not inevitable lead to a bad ending. In
fact a bad beginning can give us strength to create a good ending.”
Life is a matrix of possibility, the fabric of which is threaded by all
experiences. The weight of current perception creates a slight
depression within the matrixed material, made up of spiritual and
physical knowledge, causing the ball of life to roll in the direction of
life’s greatest event impression. In this imagining, we can see that life is
affected constantly by choice related to each and every occurrence.
Sometimes, experiences create a loss of tension in the fabric of life, a
weakening of life’s elasticity and we naturally return to such an
impressed part of life, this is our natural proclivity, however we have
the choice to move on and to add to life’s fabric or to remain in the
depression we have created within the fabric. Weakening of the matrix
material can be caused through physical, spiritual or emotionally
traumatic events, from which we fail to move on. The impression of life
however, moves inexorably to the climax of our passing and to the next
fabric of another existence in the coming creation of our future life. The
threads of each matrix existence survive from one incarnation to the
next. In this manner, the choice of parents and experiences in each
carnation could be said to be ours, but certainly the choice of how we
create that life’s matrix of experience, is ours.
The direction of the impression of life on the matrix field, is impacted by
our choice to be aware of the energy that is created and that propels us
through our thought processes and so to create some control, or to
remain completely affected by that energy and at the whim of past
experience in the creation of our future. Every experience creates an
event that affects the direction of our life. The memory of each
experience is stored within our subconscious memory, ready to be
recalled on demand through circumstance, to defend body and mind,
without judgment of right or wrong. The subconscious is only memory
and no more. Such memory is stored in our brain and throughout the
body as cellular memory. This is why it has no judgment, as it is pure
memory, recalled at the appropriate time, when current experience
matches past experience. Sometimes, recall does not exactly match
past experience, but is the “closest fit’ between past and present. In this
way, an experience from childhood, deeply impressed on the psyche and
held within cellular memory, may be recalled to impact our behaviour in
a current, adult circumstance. Perhaps this pattern of recall is repeated
throughout life, and so is strengthened each time it is recalled.
Consider the child who is exposed to violence involving his or her
parents. The child’s father comes home under the influence of alcohol
and arguments and physical abuse between the parents ensues. Lets
further assume, that this violence is an almost daily event in this child’s
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creates a set of beliefs around alcohol and violence and violence
between men and women as being normal. Lets assume that our child
grows to be a young woman who expects to be the subject of violence
when her drunken partner comes to her home. This is from a set of
beliefs, constructed through subconscious memory. She may feel fear
on his return, on that first occasion, as a knot in her stomach, at the
thought of what may ensue. This knot of fear is cellular memory that
she experienced as a child when her parents fought. Her subconscious
recall does not judge that the violence is good, bad or indifferent, but
simply that when confronted by a drunken male, in her home, violence
will occur, because it occurred on a previous occasion and the emotion
now recalled, served her as a child and so will again. She may not feel
that knot of fear if she encountered a drunk at an hotel or restaurant, as
the physical circumstance of not being in her home, is different. It is
possible that subconscious memory is triggered at the hotel, but as the
physical locality is different (hotel to home) the cellular memory does
not impact her.
Subconscious memory is a whole of body experience and as such, the
understanding of our behaviours, when caught in the whirlwind of
feelings, must be realised that other forces, apart from our cognitive
input, are at play. Until we come to this realisation, we are at the mercy
of our biographical narrative.
It is widely believed that the subconscious functions only to assist us to
achieve our goals and to find the truth of our life. (35). “In every life
situation, your subconscious mind appears to compare the desires and
goals you are aiming to achieve, with the present situation you are in, as
well as the mosaic of beliefs that you have formulated through the
experiences in life.” (35). This occurs because the subconscious is not
mind, but memory only. Triggered by the brain, subconscious memory
is constantly prepared to supply the appropriate memory response for
any given situation. We are cognitively guided by memory response.
When we create a vision board or a collage, we are asking our
subconscious memory to supply the appropriate emotional response to
the given situation we present, whether that situation is presented in
physical form or through the application of all our senses into the most
complete picture possible. The connection of our subconscious to the
matrix of possibilities available to all, is done at the level of ‘knowing’
and beyond the cognitive abilities of unenlightened beings. Our
subconscious memory has the connection to universal spirit through
the connection of our archetypal inheritance from within the collective
unconscious.
We have connection to archetypes through the collective unconscious.
They are our unlearned inheritance, which guide us through our
experience as an individual within a society of individuals. Archetypes
consist of a set of beliefs and understandings, inherent to some degree
in all beings. Many teach that archetypes exist only in human beings,
however it is apparent that archetypes are at least, in the higher life
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animals to see the hero, the father or mother archetypal characters.
Too often we separate ourselves from nature through an old fashioned
set of beliefs that human beings are somehow better because we speak.
Some say that we are the only animals that are consciously aware that
we are conscious. If that is true, then that is what divides us from other
animals. Certainly, as the species become more complex, those species
rely less and less on instinctual behaviours and have greater cognitive
abilities. People express surprise when they observe the native birds in
the garden of our home, calling each other when I appear with a handful
of minced meat. “Why! They appear to be calling each other!” These
people say in amazement. As if human beings were the only animals on
the planet that communicated with each other. Its time, I think, to stop
and ponder our place within nature, rather than separate from nature.
Mind requires opposites in order to comprehend. There must be a down
to every up, light to dark and good for every bad. Archetypal characters
are no different and there are shadow archetypes that indicate our
weaknesses and shortcomings, they are sometimes described as our
dark side, but such a description must lie in the eye of the beholder. Our
shadow archetype may simply be that side of our character that is on
the wild side of normal. Carl Jung talked about the tension of opposites
such as good and evil, represented in the wise old man, Philemon and
his opposite and soul-less, Faust.
Within the opposites, there is male and female. Jung called these anima
and animus. These archetypes are the completeness of our true self.
The feminine and masculine completeness of our character. Ancient
scribes of Sanskrit knew these forces as Shakti and Shiva. Shakti is the
primordial cosmic energy and in Hinduism, represents the force that
flows universally. When Shiva and Shakti or male and female energies
are in balance, all is as it should be. When male energy becomes
predominant, we once more become the aggressors of the planet
through the creation of wars and the plunder of the ecology. Shiva
energy is the unchanging aspect of consciousness and is the
representation of the un-manifest, while Shakti represents everything
you see around you. Tantric belief tells us that Shakti is the power of
creating objects and individuals (or separate centres of manifestation)
while Shiva is consciousness itself. Plato said “What is on earth is
merely the resemblance and shadow of something that is in a higher
sphere, a resplendent thing which remains in an unchangeable
condition.”
We may experience our archetypal characters as the stern, authority
figure of the father, or the nurturing aspects of the mother. Many of us
experience the hero, the defender or rescuer. We feel the impact of the
hero’s powers when, in a sympathetic reaction to the illness of another,
we want to comfort or assist them. Some people are drawn to those who
have serious illness, in an unconscious answer to the hero’s influence.
This is not necessarily a positive influence, when such behaviour does
not come from the servant’s heart, but is in answer to an inner need of
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Archetypal character and mythology have traditionally been the
inheritance of society throughout the ages, however in modern times, as
the churches became aligned with society’s askew reliance and focus on
money, and the established religions’ failed attempt to gain acceptance
through modernisation, society transferred their allegiances from
religiosity to the state. The church going public never really went away,
the modernising religions deserted them. These people simply stopped
going to a changed environment within their churches that no longer
offered the mythical characters of old and turned their attention in
stead, to the state and politics where the drama and mythologies and
indeed the fear, played out almost daily. The public made this shift as
the churches lost direction and as that occurred, the state increased its
fear-based politics. Runaway self-absorption that we witness in today’s
society arises from the loss of religious traditions and values.
As we lose the relationship to God, planet and with each other, we
increase the self-absorption that shows in individualistic behaviours.
The traditions of established religions and of family, community and
civil society become lost through the oversight of folklore and
mythology that archetypal characters and ritual had once provided. As
mentioned previously, the loss of virtue and values within society and
the increase in self-absorption, combined with the loss of traditions that
include those of family, friendship, community, social cohesiveness,
honesty truth and courage, create a disparity between hope on the one
side and fear on the other. There are no longer the traditional gate-
keepers to society’s morals and values, that were once given us through
the old ritualistic traditions handed down by those institutions that
have tried to become sycophantically popular and in doing so, have
shown themselves to be just as self-absorbed and fallible as any of the
individuals searching for their own truth and who now have no common
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 Chapter Ten

The Map, The Territory & Everything Else

“The map is not the territory.”

Alfred Korzybski

The dictum given by Korzybski, describes our understanding of our

unique world. We have an understanding of events, nuances and
gleanings of our world, through those perceptions gained through the
experiences, filtered by our senses. Sometimes, through inattention or
because of a lack of awareness, we may lack the richness within each or
any of those resources and this in turn, allows an experience of stress or
distress. However, when we deliberately enrich our experiences
through conscious choice, we change from stress and distress to the
experiences of peace and joy. Without deliberate choice, experience is a
matter of what your ‘map’ tells you is available to you. Indeed, our
unique map of what we perceive to be reality can be altered at any time.
To change our experience we simply change our perception. We gain
our own and unique perception of our world through the structure of
our nervous system, and through the structure of our language or
through ultimate choice. In order to choose change, we need to become
aware. Deepak Chopra and Tony Robbins both agree, ‘We are the cause
of our experience.’
Without introspection, we may believe that we exist in a world that acts
upon us. We may believe that what we experience is entirely due to our
senses and even that those sensory experiences create what we are.
Our body is an ever-evolving container of flesh and blood and chemical
reactions. It is in a constant state of renewal, using at all times, those
atoms that have been or will be, in every other body on the planet. We
are a part of a single cosmological organism. Our body is a river of
information and intelligence that has within it, the holographic
intelligence of the universe. Nothing is what it seems.
We exist on a piece of rock that is not rock, but a composite of iron and
nickel both liquid and solid. Our earth is thousands of miles thick with
internal temperatures in the range of thousands of degrees and yet we
sense an earth of peace and beauty on a flimsy skin of land that is
apparently flat and yet, depending on where we stand, we may be
upside down in comparison to a loved one who is on another part of the
earth’s thin crust. Up is not up, but down, or perhaps out when viewed
from another vantage point. It is all a matter of perception. Our earth
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not billions) of other universes in a void that is unfathomably and
infinitely huge. This earth is a mere speck when compared to the size of
our universe and yet, according to the latest understanding; our
universe is proportionately similar within the cosmos. We are a speck,
on a speck of space dust, in a void that is beyond our comprehension.
We experience tens of thousands of thoughts every day and yet more
than ninety percent of these thoughts, we experienced yesterday. Our
body reacts chemically to all thought in order to create our physical
outcomes, which are reinforced by the repetitive thoughts of today and
yesterday. Our future will always be highly predictable, unless we
decide to take control. Until we change our basic core beliefs and our
sense of certainty about our experiences, then those things, of which we
are certain, will be the physical and mental evidence of our lives. Our
reality is our interpretation of what is happening to us, perceived
through our senses. We have the opportunity to control our existence,
including our health, wealth and happiness through the alteration of
our though processes. Our body has the capacity to create all the drugs
we require in order for perfect health. Extreme joy experienced at a
deep level will create enough interleukin two and interferon, to cure
cancer. Extreme fear through terror, over a sustained period could be
fatal and yet our experience of terror or joy is the result of perception.
The entropic nature of the human body causes us little concern as we go
about our daily lives. Virtually every atom in our body is replaced day,
by day, hour by hour. The very DNA that carries in it, the memory of
who we are and where we came from, is replaced atom by atom and yet
the memory stays. The ‘I’ of me today, is still the same as the ‘I’ of me
last week or last year and even when I am ill, the ‘I’ of me remains as I
remember it to be when I was in my prime. Even as my cells die, my
sense of self remains. Some call this unchangeable sense, the soul.
Others would describe it as a form of consciousness, or spirit, but no
matter what description we give it, we are describing something that
does not die. This is the form of us that survives the mortal death and
lives on, as our cells from this bodily existence disassemble and
reassemble in another location and for them, another incarnation. We
experience no fear of our earthly existence and yet it is through living
that much of our body actually dies during every second of life, on our
journey from birth to death. Death is not the opposite of life; it is the
mirror end of birth and is the continuation of our spirit’s journey,
unshackled by the perception of earthly experience. When we come to
the understanding that the ‘I’ of self does not die, but that death is
merely a continuation of life itself, then the fear that many of us hold
around the eventuality of death, must fall away.
During our search for satisfaction and joy, we encounter those
experiences we know as reality and we devise ways to make sense of
them in such a way as to create the least amount of pain, mentally and
physically. The reason for our existence is the creation of progeny
while experiencing the greatest amount of joy, while doing the least
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things through leaving the smallest possible footprint on our planet, in
order for those who follow to have the ability to continue their own
creations. Through the assemblage of joy, we experience our greatest
possible health and in this way, we have the ability to engender similar
vibrational values to others. When we look for joy at the expense of
others, for the greater satisfaction of ourselves, we tip the balance and
begin the process of the entropic inter-relationship with all. The search
for this selfish joy does not necessarily have its ultimate destination in
the physical realm, as the emotion of schadenfreude would indicate.
Schadenfreude is a word that describes joy in the suffering of others,
described by the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer as the most evil sin
of human kind and one and is devoid of empathy.
It is not difficult to see evidence of such behaviour in society.
Experiments have described, that men, more than women actually
enjoy seeing people suffer. Men, it would seem, take pleasure in seeing
suffering being experienced by those who, in their opinion, may deserve
such pain whether that pain is mental or physical. Brain scanning
studies show that schadenfreude is correlated with envy. Recent
evidence of this effect has been demonstrated with the unrelenting
attacks on Lance Armstrong after his apparent drug enhanced winnings
in the Tour de France. There can be little doubt that envy has been at
least one factor in Armstrong’s demise. A study reported in the Journal
Of Experimental Social Psychology, (36) suggested that people
experience feelings of delight in the humiliation and defeat of those who
hold opposing political views. Schadenfreude is an explanation for the
‘tall poppy’ syndrome that appears to erupt occasionally when society
appears to take delight in the suffering of heroes who have gone before.
As we lose our perspective of finding joy that does detract from our
fellow beings, we seek those egocentric behaviours that depletes not
only our spiritual radiance, but lessens the vibration of the world
around us to the long slow patterns of fear.
When we lose our joy filled direction, we create confusion through the
energies of self-doubt, which then attacks self-esteem. Self-esteem
arises from our internal reference to our own appraisal of self-worth.
This is our perception of self and so this view becomes our reality. With
the loss or confusion around our joy filled direction we find
corresponding damage to our vision of self-worth, which in turn impacts
on physical appearance, dissatisfaction, procrastination and a general
pessimistic attitude to life. With low self-esteem, we lose the motivation
for life and become generally anxious about our place in society and
uncertain of our abilities. In the extreme, anxiousness can lead to such
behaviours as obsessive-compulsive disorder where repetitive
behaviours become the body’s way of coping with the repetitive
thoughts that occur. When these physical impacts on our motivators
are combined with deliberate positioning of fear-based conversations
around such things as terror and war and the impact of xenophobic
predictors within society, which we get every day from news reports
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to participate, finding that worry accumulates. What we really need in
these circumstances is to re-evaluate through introspection, address
our thinking patterns by asking ourselves if we have lost the habit of
making choices. Are we acting upon the world or are the world’s
circumstances acting upon us?
Loss of a joy-based direction in life creates behaviours that cause us to
compare and compete. Constant referral to comparisons is a fear-based
behaviour around needing to be and to have better than the other
person. One in three marriages in Australia, end in divorce. There are,
no doubt, many contributing reasons for these statistics, however we
often observe one spouse deriding the other in a teasing and testing
way. Sometimes such teasing is done in order to simply get a reaction,
but it is a subversive behaviour, perhaps done deliberately or as a
subconscious extension of the teasing spouse’s own past. At times,
these behaviours are controlling and judgemental, which have their
roots in fear through the belief that the controlling party must be
superior or face the possibility of being seen to be unworthy or weak.
Such thinking leads, in turn, to comparative behaviours, where one
thinks that they are superior to the other. This is no longer a reflection
of love and gives rise to a lack of trust, anger, frustration and even
jealousy.
When we create the thoughts that we are loving, strong and powerful,
we release the desire to ridicule or sit in judgement of others. As an
evolving, whole and well-developed human being, we elevate ourselves
from the fear of criticism and become able to co-create a loving life that
allows growth with our fellow beings. Introspection provides us with an
awareness of our values, which in turn creates confidence in our
decision-making processes. It is self-doubt that creates confusion and
clouds our direction. Self-esteem comes from an inner knowing of our
own worth, created through the pursuit of our own joy-filled life
direction. This causes us to no longer rely on, or seek the praise of
others in the pursuit of self-image. The seeking of image is the cause of
our engagement in approval seeking behaviours or those behaviours
that deny the worthiness of others. True value comes from within and
the relentless pursuit of joy that does not impact negatively with others
or our planet.
True joy comes to us when we leave the smallest possible footprint.
Purposeful joy through the smallest possible footprint is the antithesis
of those who would seek to dominate. Those who engage in social
domination do so in the belief that such behaviour creates stability in
social hierarchies and throughout society. People attempt to dominate
others for many reasons, from ego centred drives to the belief that what
they do, is in humankind’s best interests. Dominance taken to its
extreme argues that social myths involved in religions and the
dominance of gender-based behaviours in common society through to
politics, are reasons for the subjugation of others. Dominance is
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become more powerful, the probability of a dominant group being in
control increases. In this way, hierarchies within society give way to
inter-group competitiveness through the discrimination of one group to
another and also on the part of individuals, institutions and even
through systematic terror. Violence by gangs or in some societies, the
armed forces, as has occurred in Syria and other parts of the Middle
East comes into being through a mindset of dominance. Dominance by
the few, creates low expectations in those who are oppressed and gives
rise to the paternalistic myths of power, allowing the establishment of
dictators and some political leaders who push their agendas of war that
in turn, inflicts the will of one nation onto another.
Some religions too, seek to dominate through rigid views on morality,
fundamentalism and the punitive view of conformity of their
congregation. The basis of such dominance is again, one of fear. Fear
that the world is an unsafe place and that if one dos not strike first, then
one will be struck. This model is the pre-emptive strike or first strike
capabilities that some countries who dominate the world’s nuclear
arsenals, subscribe.
The dominance of a defensive pattern of thinking is one that emanates
from immature thought that struggles to assert itself in a world that
appears, at first glance, to be threatening. It is the thought pattern of
adolescence when it is used as a protective weapon to shield the
personality from the rigors of the adult world. Some people become
addicted to defensive behaviour and this greatly depends on their
treatment within those teenage years, which is the basis, if not the
foundation, of character.
While some defensive behaviours seek to dominate, not all do. Some
people under value themselves and constantly self-sabotage. Others
become victims or martyrs, believing that they are the constant victims
of persecution. Others become stubborn and greedy and are overly self-
indulgent. True dominance, however, comes from arrogance and the
need to be seen as flawless. All these behaviours, however, seek to
dominate in their own way.
Our soul is based in joy, rather than fear and it is our natural choice to
follow the love, truth and freedom that joy promises. Joy is different to
happiness and comes from an inner peace. Happiness comes from
external gifts, whether physical or esoteric, which are fleeting for as
much as these things are given, so they can be taken away. Inner peace
helps form our spirit, while peace and joy become the physical evidence
of our soul’s journey.
All of our reactive behaviours stem from past experience.
Reactive behaviours also depend on our mood, prior to the expression of
a particular behaviour. The Journal of Consumer Research (37)
reported on a study that asked a number of participants to evaluate a
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According to the study, opinion is influenced by our mood and that
opinion also depends on whether you discussed your feelings about the
experience immediately after it occurred.
If, for example, you’re upset about something before you sit down to
watch a movie, and then you tell a friend about the movie shortly
afterward, the authors believe your pre-existing mood (being upset) will
affect your opinion of the movie, and the act of talking about the
experience while in that mood will “lock in,” or permanently influence,
your opinion of the film.
To test how and when mood affects perceptions, the researchers asked a
group of more than 100 subjects to view a Cezanne painting. Half were
subjected to “mood manipulation” beforehand by being required to read
and discuss an upsetting article; the other half, were not. Within each
group, some participants were then immediately asked to evaluate the
painting (by being asked if they would want the painting to hang on a
wall in their home), while the others were not queried. Five days later,
all participants were asked to complete the same evaluation.
Those subjects who evaluated the painting immediately after reading
the disturbing story gave the painting less positive reviews than those
in the neutral group. But there were some interesting differences in the
responses from the two subgroups in the negative mood group: Subjects
who evaluated the painting immediately after seeing it were more likely
to have unfavourable impressions than those who were not asked to
evaluate the painting until five days later. The authors conclude that
incidental emotions have an effect on people’s perceptions, but only
when the emotion is locked in at the time of the event via sharing of the
experience, either through casual conversation or more formal
mechanisms, such as writing a review or filling out a survey. (38)
The researchers have found that not only does our immediate mood
influence opinion but, current mood indicators are influenced by
memory. A bad memory will effect how we feel currently and that
current feeling may well become locked to that past feeling. In other
words, if something in current time causes us to recall a bad, past event,
we may anchor those feelings to the event or thing that caused us to
recall those memories. How we feel now, can be how we have felt in the
past and without awareness, our future becomes highly predictable as
the past is recreated in a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Many people are afraid to speak in public. Even to address small
gatherings fills them with fear. As children, we were often told that we
were not good enough. I recently said this to a friend and she replied
that her parents never told her such things. In fact, my friend said, her
parents constantly encouraged her. When we seek to establish the
formation of beliefs, our first impulse is to ask what the dominant
adults, such as parents, teachers and religious leaders did or said.
Adults were not necessarily the ones to deliver statements around our
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a peg or two and at times, statements by school friends, siblings or
peers, fitted exactly with our mood or emotion at the time of delivery
and suddenly we have the makings of a life long belief. The inner child
repeats the mantra of not being good enough every time we call on our
adult courage. Sometimes we listen, sometimes we don’t. It is the eight
or ten year old child who informs us of our worth and it is up to us as to
whether we listen.
Behaviours such as procrastination may well have their foundations in
childhood fears around abandonment. One of the two basic needs,
belonging, is sometimes threatened in childhood. A parent may walk
away in a shop and momentarily the child is lost and overwhelmed by
the sense of abandonment. The child may experience similar feelings
when left at school or a hospital. Such feelings of being abandoned
create a need to vacillate when decisions are needed, because the inner
child determines that everything must be perfect in order for him or her
to be accepted. Procrastination can easily become a life long habit as we
constantly seek the reassurance that we are loved and indeed, that we
are worthy of love.
We are creatures of habit and our behaviours are learned behaviours.
Much of what we do is repetitive. Many fixed states of consciousness
predominate resulting in our life experiences becoming habitual or at
least, consistent. The only way we have in breaking with these
consistencies, is to become aware that we need to, or want to change. If
life is not going the way we would like, then change is an obvious
solution. When we examine, honestly, our inner most thoughts, we are
able to observe the link between them and our behaviours which in turn
create the reality with which we live. Through such examination, we
are then able to decide – or choose, new and perhaps more productive,
beliefs.
There is a simple truth to life and that is, the way we believe things to be
is dependant upon our perception of those experiences. Through a
deliberate change in perspective, we are able to create a broader view of
life and in turn, we create the possibility of change. We have at our
disposal, infinite possibilities of how we can view life. We can either
choose to believe that circumstance acts upon us, creating experiences
that impact our feelings that either create empowering opportunity or
attitudes of disempowerment that keep us locked into victimhood, or we
can act upon our world and in doing so, loose the lottery of chance. We
have the opportunity to deliberately create the world we want through
specific choice. We create our reality already and many of us do so by
being unaware that we actually choose what we experience.
Introspection, followed by the development of awareness, allows us to be
in control of outcome. This is easy to do, but it takes effort and from
that perspective, the easiness of it dissipates. Many people do not like
sustained effort because that requires discipline, however, as Jim Rohn
used to say “Regret weighs tons. Discipline weighs ounces.”

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